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    Species Accepted

    Acontias breviceps Essex, 1925

    Short-headed Legless Skink
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Acontias
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      5 results
      Pootloze graafskink Dutch
      Short-headed Legless Skink English
      Shorthead Lance Skink English
      Shortheaded Legless Skink English
      Короткоголовый аконтиас Russian

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      13 results
      Hewitt, J. (1937). Description of new forms of the genus Acontias. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa 26: 39-48.
      Zhao, Z., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D. W., Jordaan, A., Nicolau, G., Edwards, S., Riekert, S., & Heideman, N. (2023). Diversification of the African legless skinks in the subfamily Acontinae (Family Scincidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
      Busschau, Theo; Werner Conradie; Adriaan Jordaan, Savel R. Daniels. (2016). Unmasking evolutionary diversity among two closely related South African legless skink species (Acontinae: Acontias) using molecular data. Zoology 121:72-82 [Print 2017].
      Daniels, Savel R.; Neil J. L. Heideman, Martin G. J. Hendricks, Keith A. Crandall. (2006). Taxonomic subdivisions within the fossorial skink subfamily Acontinae (Squamata: Scincidae) reconsidered: a multilocus perspective. Zoologica Scripta 35 (4): 353.
      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.
      CONRADIE, WERNER; WILLIAM R. BRANCH, & GILLIAN WATSON. (2019). Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 2: Reptiles (Squamata). Zootaxa 4576 (1): 001–045.
      Lamb, T.; Biswas, S. & Bauer, A.M. (2010). A phylogenetic reassessment of African fossorial skinks in the subfamily Acontinae (Squamata: Scincidae): evidence for parallelism and polyphyly. Zootaxa 2657: 33–46.
      Essex, R. (1925). Descriptions of two new species of the genus Acontias and notes on some other lizards found in the Cape Province. Rec. Albany Mus. 3: 332-342.

      Citation

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