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    Species Accepted

    Scelotes mirus (Roux, 1907)

    Montane Burrowing Skink
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Scelotes
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Montane Burrowing Skink English
      Montane Dwarf Burrowing Skink English

      Bibliography

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      14 results
      Branch, W. R. (1988). Field Guide to the snakes and other reptiles of southern Africa. Struik Publishers, Cape Town, 328 Pp.
      Roux, J. (1907). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Fauna von Süd-Afrika. Ergebnisse einer Reise von Prof. Max Weber im Jahre 1894. VII. Lacertilia (Eidechsen). Zool. Jahrb., Abt. Syst., Geogr. Biol. Tiere (Jena), 25: 403-444.
      Daan, S., & Hillenius, D. (1966). Catalogue of the type specimens of amphibians and reptiles in the Zoological Museum, Amsterdam. Beaufortia 13: 117-144.
      Mausfeld,P.; Vences, M. Schmitz, A. & Veith, M. (2000). First data on the molecular phylogeography of scincid lizards of the genus Mabuya. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 17 (1): 11-14.
      FitzSimons, V. F. (1943). The lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoir No.1 (Pretoria), 528 Pp.
      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.
      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.

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