The genus
Concinnia belongs to the Australian
Sphenomorphid clade that contains other
genera such as
Ctenotus,
Anomalopus and the
Eulamprus water skinks. This genus was raised by Skinner et al.(2013) based on molecular phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences, which showed that five sampled species from the
Eulamprus tenuis group formed a well supported clade with the then monotypic genera
Gnypetoscincus and
Nangura. Wells and Wellington (1983) coined the name
Concinnia and applied it to the
Eulamprus tenuis group delimited by Greer (1989). Although this
tenuis group may form a clade it did not receive strong support in molecular phylogenetic analyses, with
C. amplus and
C. frerei forming deep lineages of uncertain position relative to
C. queenslandiae and
C. spinosus. Consequently, Skinner et al. (2013) united the well supported broader clade, including
Gnypetoscincus and
Nangura in
Concinnia, including
C. frerei and
C. sokosoma based on the work of O'Connor and Moritz (2003). Skinner et al. (2013) further restricted the genus
Eulamprus to the
water skinks assigned by Greer (1989) to the
Eulamprus quoyii group and created two new genera,
Silvascincus for species in Greer's (1989)
Eulamprus murrayi group (including
E. murrayi and
E. tryoni), and
Tumbunascincus for
Eulamprus luteilateralis. ==Species==