Lerista
Lerista is a diverse (~ 90 species) genus of skinks endemic to Australia, commonly known as sliders. The genus is especially notable for the variation in the amount of limb reduction. The variation ranges from short-bodied forms with large legs bearing five toes, to elongate forms completely lacking legs. The body length of the lizards is . Their locomotion is linked to their body shape. The shorter skinks with prominent limbs travel on the surface; the longer skinks with reduced legs tend to burrow more. A phylogenetic tree of Lerista, derived from DNA analysis, reveals that limb loss has happened multiple times within this group. Limb loss has occurred relatively recently, in the past 3.6 million years or so.

Species
The following species are recognized as being valid.

Note: a binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Lerista.

Lerista aericeps 
Lerista alia 
Lerista allanae 
Lerista allochira 
Lerista ameles 
Lerista amicorum 
Lerista anyara 
Lerista apoda 
Lerista arenicola 
Lerista axillaris 
Lerista baynesi 
Lerista bipes 
Lerista borealis 
Lerista bougainvillii 
Lerista bunglebungle 
Lerista carpentariae 
Lerista chalybura 
Lerista chordae 
Lerista christinae 
Lerista cinerea 
Lerista clara 
Lerista colliveri 
Lerista connivens 
Lerista desertorum 
Lerista distinguenda 
Lerista dorsalis 
Lerista edwardsae 
Lerista elegans 
Lerista elongata 
Lerista emmotti 
Lerista eupoda 
Lerista flammicauda 
Lerista fragilis 
Lerista frosti 
Lerista gascoynensis 
Lerista gerrardii 
Lerista greeri 
Lerista griffini 
Lerista haroldi 
Lerista hobsoni 
Lerista humphriesi 
Lerista ingrami 
Lerista ips 
Lerista jacksoni 
Lerista kalumburu 
Lerista karlschmidti 
Lerista kendricki 
Lerista kennedyensis 
Lerista kingi 
Lerista labialis 
Lerista lineata 
Lerista lineopunctulata 
Lerista macropisthopus 
Lerista maculosa 
Lerista micra 
Lerista microtis 
Lerista miopus 
Lerista muelleri 
Lerista neander 
Lerista nevinae 
Lerista nichollsi 
Lerista occulta 
Lerista onsloviana 
Lerista orientalis 
Lerista parameles 
Lerista petersoni 
Lerista picturata 
Lerista planiventralis 
Lerista praefrontalis 
Lerista praepedita  
Lerista punctatovittata 
Lerista puncticauda 
Lerista quadrivincula 
Lerista robusta 
Lerista rochfordensis 
Lerista rolfei 
Lerista separanda 
Lerista simillima 
Lerista speciosa 
Lerista stictopleura 
Lerista storri 
Lerista stylis 
Lerista taeniata 
Lerista talpina 
Lerista terdigitata 
Lerista timida 
Lerista tridactyla 
Lerista uniduo 
Lerista vanderduysi 
Lerista varia 
Lerista verhmens 
Lerista vermicularis 
Lerista viduata 
Lerista vittata 
Lerista walkeri 
Lerista wilkinsi 
Lerista xanthura 
Lerista yuna 
Lerista zietzi 
Lerista zonulata