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    Species Accepted

    Scelotes uluguruensis Barbour & Loveridge, 1928

    Uluguru Dwarf Burrowing Skink
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Scelotes
    IUCNVulnerable

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Uluguru Dwarf Burrowing Skink English
      Uluguru fossorial skink English
      Танзанийский сцелотес Russian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      10 results
      Lyakurwa, & John Valentine. (2017). The Reptiles of the Uzungwa Scarp Forest Reserve (USFR): An Updated Checklist with Notes on Dagger-Tooth Vine Snake Xyelodontophis uluguruensis. Journal of East African Natural History 106(2):57-65.
      Uetz, P. H., Patel, M., Gbadamosi, Z., Nguyen, A., & Shoope, S. (2024). A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732.
      Barbour, T. & LOVERIDGE.A. (1928). A comparative study of the herpetological fauna of the Uluguru and Usambara mountains, Tanzania Territory with descriptions of new species. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Cambridge (Massachusetts), 50 (2): 85-265.
      Spawls, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. (2002). A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 Pp. [Reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147].
      Broadley, Donald G. (1999). Geographic Distribution. Scelotes uluguruensis Barbour & Loveridge, 1928. Uluguru Fossorial Skink. African Herp News (29): 43-44.
      Broadley, D. G., & HOWELL, K. M. (1991). A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70.
      Lyakurwa, J. V., Howell, K. M., Munishi, L. K., & Treydte, A. C. (2019). Uzungwa Scarp Nature Forest Reserve; a unique hotspot for reptiles in Tanzania. Acta Herpetologica 14 (1): 3-14.
      Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon. (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 Pp.
      Rovero, F., Menegon, M., Fjeldså, J., Collett, L., Doggart, N., Leonard, C., Norton, G., Owen, N., Perkin, A., Spitale, D., Ahrends, A., & Burgess, N. D. (2014). Targeted vertebrate surveys enhance the faunal importance and improve explanatory models within the Eastern Arc Mountains of Kenya and Tanzania. Diversity and Distributions. Doi: 10.1111/Ddi.12246.
      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.

      Citation

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