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    Species Accepted

    Cryptoblepharus africanus (Sternfeld, 1918)

    African Coral Rag Skink
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Cryptoblepharus
    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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      African Coral Rag Skink English
      Afrikanischer Natternaugenskink German
      Afrikansk Kyst-brilleskink Danish
      Coral Rag Skink English
      East-African Snake-eyed Skink English
      Lagartixa-de-olhos-cobra Portuguese
      Scinco marittimo africano Italian
      Африканский скрытоглаз Russian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Greer, A. E. (1974). The generic relationships of the scincid lizard genus Leiolopisma and its relatives. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 1-67.
      Lanza, B. (1990). Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography. Biogeographia, 14: 407-465 [1988].
      Broadley, D. G., & HOWELL, K. M. (1991). A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70.
      Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon. (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 Pp.
      Malonza, Patrick K.; David M. Mulwa, Joash O. Nyamache, Georgina Jones. (2017). Biogeography of the Shimba Hills ecosystem herpetofauna in Kenya. Zoological Research 38(5): 1-11.
      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.
      Spawls, S., & Rotich, D. (1997). An annotated checklist of the lizards of Kenya. J. East African Nat. Hist. 86: 61-83.
      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.
      Gans, C.; LAURENT, R.F. & PANDIT, H. (1965). Notes on a herpetological collection from the Somali Republic. Ann. Mus. Roy. Afr. Centr., Sér. 8vo, Tervuren, (80) Zool., (134): 1-93.

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