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    Species Accepted

    Scelotes caffer (Peters, 1861)

    Cape Dwarf Burrowing Skink
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Scelotes
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Cape Dwarf Burrowing Skink English
      Peters'Burrowing Skink English

      Bibliography

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      10 results
      Bauer, A.M.; Günther,R. & Klipfel,M. (1995). The herpetological contributions of Wilhelm C.H. Peters (1815-1883). SSAR Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology, 714 Pp.
      Boulenger, G. A. (1910). A revised list of the South African reptiles and batrachians, with synoptic tables, special reference to the specimens in the South African Museum, and descriptions of new species. Annals of the South African Museum 5: 455-543.
      Whiting, A.S.; Aaron M. Bauer & Jack W. Sites, Jr. (2003). Phylogenetic relationships and limb loss in sub-Saharan African scincine lizards (Squamata: Scincidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 29 (3): 582-598.
      Pethiyagoda, R. (2023). Policing the scientific lexicon: The new colonialism? Megataxa 010 (1): 020–025.
      Peters, & Wilhem Carl Hartwig. (1861). Eine neue Gattung von Eidechsen aus der Familie der Scincoides, Sepomorphus caffer. Monatsber. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin. 1861 (April): 422-423.
      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.
      REBELO, A .D.; Z. ZHAO, A. JORDAAN, P. R. JORDAAN & W.CONRADIE. (2018). Scelotes caffer. Peters, 1961. African Herp News (68): 53-56.
      Telford, N. S., ALEXANDER, G. J., BECKER, F. S., CONRADIE, W., JORDAAN, A., KEMP, L., ... & TOLLEY, K. A. (2022). EXTENSIONS TO THE KNOWN GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS OF REPTILES IN THE GREAT KAROO, SOUTH AFRICA. Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 17(1), 145-154.
      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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