[1] These skinks are small, shiny, smooth-scaled species.

These skinks are identified by their distinct blue tail colour.

They live in tropical rainforest and montane forest habitats.

These secretive skinks silently move through thick leaf-litter on forest floor.

The following 5 species, listed alphabetically by specific name, are recognized as being valid:[4] Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Kaestlea.