Combinations

• Mocoa pretiosa O’Shaughnessy, 1874: 298 [original combination]
• Lygosoma (Leiolopisma) pretiosus — Smith, 1937: 225 [subsequent combination]
• Lampropholis pretiosa — Mittleman, 1952: 29 [subsequent combination]
• Leiolopisma pretiosum — Greer, 1974: 17 [subsequent combination]
• Carinascincus pretiosum — Wells & Wellington, 1985: 24 [subsequent combination, incorrect spelling]
• Niveoscincus pretiosus — Hutchinson et al. 1990: 544 [subsequent combination]
• Carinascincus pretiosus — Couper, Covacevich, Amey & Baker, 2006: 380 [subsequent combination, correct spelling]

Primary references

• O’Shaughnessy, A.W.E. 1874. Descriptions of new species of Scincidæ in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 4, 13(76): 298–301. DOI: 10.1080/00222937408680864 BHL Reference page. 

• Wells, R.W. & Wellington, C.R. 1985. A classification of the Amphibia and Reptilia of Australia. Australian Journal of Herpetology, Supplementary Series 1: 1–61. Reference page. 

• Hutchinson, M.N., Donnellan, S.C., Baverstock, P.R., Krieg, M., Simms, S. & Burgin, S. 1990. Immunological relationships and generic revision of the Australian lizards assigned to the genus Leiolopisma (Scincidae: Lygosominae). Australian Journal of Zoology 38(5): 535–554. DOI: 10.1071/ZO9900535 Reference page. 

• Couper, P.J., Covacevich, J.A., Amey, A.P. & Baker, A.M. 2006. The genera of skinks (Family Scincidae) of Australia and its island territories: diversity, distribution and identification. pp. 367–383 in Merrick, J.R., Archer, M., Hickey, G.M. & Lee, M.S.Y. (eds). Evolution and Biogeography of Australasian Vertebrates. Auscipub Pty Ltd.: Sydney. 942 pp. ISBN 0975779001 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2020. Carinascincus pretiosus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 7 July 2018.

• Chapple, D.C, Michael, D., Robertson, P., Clemann, N. & Wapstra, E. 2018. IUCN: Niveoscincus pretiosus  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T109480730A109480743.