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    Species Accepted

    Scelotes limpopoensis Fitzsimons, 1930

    Limpopo Burrowing Skink
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Scelotes
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      4 results
      Limpopo Burrowing Skink English
      Limpopo Dwarf Burrowing Skink English
      White-Bellied Dwarf Burrowing Skink
      Трансваальский сцелотес Russian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      13 results
      http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/search.php?genus=Scelotes&species=limpopoensis&submit=Search
      FitzSimons, V. F. (1930). Descriptions of new South African Reptilia and Batrachia, with distribution records of allied species in the Transvaal Museum collection. Annals Transvaal Mus. 14: 20-48.
      Stander, R. I. (2023). The Reptiles of the Limpopo Province and Kruger National Park. Herp Nomad, Polokwane, South Africa, 367 Pp.
      Jacobsen, N. H. G. (1987). A new subspecies of Scelotes limpopoensis FITZSIMONS 1930 (Sauria: Scincidae), with notes on the distribution of the genus Scelotes in the Transvaal. Annals Transvaal Mus. 34: 371-376.
      Auerbach, R. D. (1987). The Amphibians and Reptiles of Botswana. Mokwepa Consultants, Botswana, 295 Pp.
      Tolley, K.A., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D.W., Weeber, J., Burger, M. & Alexander, G.J. (eds). (2023). Conservation status of the reptiles of South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho. Suricata 10. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.
      Bates, M.F.; Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M.; Burger, M., Marais, J.; Alexander, G.J. & de Villliers, M.S. (eds.). (2014). Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 512 Pp.
      Witte, de, G. F., & LAURENT, R. (1943). Contribution à la systématique des formes dégradées de la famille des Scincidae apparentées au genre Scelotes Fitzinger. Mém. Mus. R. Hist. Nat. Belg. (Sér.2) 26: 44 Pp.
      Chapple, D. G., Slavenko, A., Tingley, R., Farquhar, J. E., Camaiti, M., Roll, U., & Meiri, S. (2023). Built for success: Distribution, morphology, ecology and life history of the world’s skinks. Ecology and Evolution, 13, E10791.
      Kirchhof, S., M. Krämer, J. Linden & K. Richter. (2010). The reptile species assemblage of the Soutpansberg (Limpopo Province, South Africa) and its characteristics. Salamandra 46 (3): 147-166.

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