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    Species Accepted

    Acontias percivali Loveridge, 1935

    Percival's Lance Skink
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Acontias
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      7 results
      Escinco ápodo de Percival Spanish
      Percival's Lance Skink English
      Percival's Legless Skink English
      Tasman's Blindworrn or Legless Skink
      Teita Limbless skink English
      sleposcink Percivalův Czech
      Аконтиас Персиваля Russian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      21 results
      Daniels, S.R.; Neil J.L. Heideman, Martin G.J. Hendricks, Mphalile E. Mokone, Keith A. Crandall. (2005). Unraveling evolutionary lineages in the limbless fossorial skink genus Acontias (Sauria: Scincidae): are subspecies equivalent systematic units? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34: 645–654.
      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.
      Loveridge, A. (1935). Scientific results of an expedition to rain forest regions in Eastern Africa. I. New reptiles and amphibians from East Africa. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 79: 1- 19.
      Spawls, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. (2002). A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 Pp. [Reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147].
      Daniels, S. R., Heideman, N. J. L., & Hendricks, M. G. J. (2009). Examination of evolutionary relationships in the Cape fossorial skink species complex (Acontinae: Acontias meleagris meleagris) reveals the presence of five cryptic lineages. Zoologica Scripta 38 (5): 449–463.
      Broadley, D. G., & HOWELL, K. M. (1991). A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70.
      Zicha O, Hrb J, Maňas M, Novák J, and BioLib contributors. BioLib.cz: Taxonomic tree of plants and animals with photos. 1999 - 2019, https://www.biolib.cz/en/main/
      Heideman, N.J.L. et al. (2008). Sexual dimorphism in the African legless skink subfamily Acontiinae (Reptilia: Scincidae). African Zoology 43 (2): 192–201.
      Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon. (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 Pp.

      Citation

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