The genus Eumeces skinks (family Scincidae) comprises four African to Middle-Eastern species. ==Systematics== Recently two taxonomic revisions have been made regarding the 19th century genus Eumeces. They both resulted in similar results; the genus is paraphyletic and must be `sliced up` into several different genera. Griffith et al. (2000) prop..... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumeces