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    Species Accepted

    Acontias plumbeus Bianconi, 1849

    Giant Lance Skink
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Acontias
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Giant Lance Skink English
      Giant Lanceolate Skink English
      Giant Legless Skink English
      Giant Legless Skinks English
      Reuse Pootlose Skink Afrikaans

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      27 results
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      Maritz, Bryan and Louis Breytenbach. (2015). Acontias plumbeus Bianconi, 1849, Giant Legless Skinks, Agonistic Behaviour. African Herp News (62): 30-31.
      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.
      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.
      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.
      Greer, Allen E. (2001). Distribution of maximum snout-vent length among species of Scincid lizards. Journal of Herpetology 35 (3): 383-395.
      Branch, William R. (1993). A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 144 S.
      Heideman, N. J. L. (1992). A cimparative Morphological Study of the Axial Musculature in the Pelvic Regions of Acontias plumbeus and Mabuya capensis with Reference to their Respective Modes of Locomotion. J. Herp. Assoc. Africa (41): 14-18.
      Broadley, D. G. (1962). On some reptile collections from the North-Western and North-Eastern Districts of Southern Rhodesia 1958-1961, with descriptions of four new lizards. Occ. Pap. Nat. Mus. South. Rhodesia 26 (B): 787-843.
      Fitzsimons, V. (1956). Acontias plumbeus broadleyi. Occ. Pap. Nat. Mus. Rhod. (21b): 95-96.

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