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    Species Accepted

    Acontias lineatus Peters, 1879

    Coastal Dwarf Legless Skink

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      14 results
      Coastal Dwarf Legless Skink English
      Coastal Dwarf Legless Skink [litoralis] English
      Coastal Legless Skink English
      Gray's dwarf legless skink English
      Gray’s Dwarf Legless Skink [grayi] English
      Lined Lance Skink English
      Namaqualand Dwarf Legless Skink [tristis] English
      Northern Cape Legless Skink English
      Stribet Dværgpilskink Danish
      Striped Dwarf Legless Skink English

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      34 results
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      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.
      https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_names/2617758/edit
      MASHININI, L. (2010). Microacontias litoralis (Broadley & Greer, 1969) Maximum size. African Herp News (51): 15.
      Werner, F. (1910). Reptilia et Amphibia. In Schultze, L., Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika. Band IV, Systematik und Tiergeographie Vertebrata B. Denkschr. Med.-Nat. Wiss. GeselI. Jena 16: 279-370 [1910].
      https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_names/2617760/edit
      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.
      Peters, & Wilhem Carl Hartwig. (1879). Über neue Amphibien des Kgl. Zoologischen Museums (Euprepes, Acontias, Typhlops, Zamenis, Spilotes, Oedipus). Monatsber. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin. 1879(August): 773-779 [1880].
      Bauer, A. M., & and Branch, W. R. (2003). The herpetofauna of the Richtersveld National Park, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. Herpetological Natural History 8: 111-160 [2001].

      Citation

      Acontias lineatus Peters, 1879 in undefined