Maximum Likelihood phylogenetic reconstruction of Papuascincus based on a 708 bp region of the ND4 mitochondrial gene. Filled circles represent nodes with a bootstrap (BS) value of 100%, empty circles represent nodes with BS values between 80% and 100%, and no circles represent unsupported nodes (BS < 80%). Clade labels for the different lineages of Papuascincus follow Slavenko et al. 2020. The raw tree file in Nexus format is available in Appendix 3.