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Acontias percivali Loveridge, 1935

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Loveridge, A. Scientific results of an expedition to rain forest regions in Eastern Africa. I. New reptiles and amphibians from East Africa.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Squamata
family
Scincidae
genus
Acontias
species
Acontias percivali

Name

Synonyms
Acontias percivali percivali
Homonyms
Acontias percivali Loveridge, 1935
Common names
Escinco ápodo de Percival in Spanish
Percival's Lance Skink in English
Percival's Lance Skink in English
Percival's Lance Skink in English
Percival's Legless Skink in English
Percival's lance skink in English
Tasman's Blindworrn or Legless Skink in language.
Tasman's Blindworrn or Legless Skink in language.
Teita Limbless Skink in English
Teita Limbless skink in English
Teita Limbless skink in English
sleposcink Percivalův in Czech
Аконтиас Персиваля in Russian
Percival's Legless Skink in English
Percival's Lance Skink in English
Teita Limbless Skink in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Lamb, Trip, Sayantan Biswas, and Aaron M. Bauer, 2010: A phylogenetic reassessment of African fossorial skinks in the subfamily Acontinae (Squamata: Scincidae): evidence for parallelism and polyphyly. Zootaxa, vol. 2657. 33-46.
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