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    Species Accepted

    Acontias gariepensis (Fitzsimons, 1941)

    Fitzsimon's Legless 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

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      Fitzsimon's Legless Skink English
      Gariep Blind Legless Skink English
      Kalahari- Pootlose Gladde Akkedis Afrikaans
      Mier Kalahari Legless Skink English

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      11 results
      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.
      Huey, R. B., & Pianka, E. R. (1974). Ecological character displacement in a lizard. American Zoologist 14: 1127-1136.
      Pianka, Eric R. (1971). Lizard species density in the Kalahari Desert. Ecology 52 (6): 1024-1029.
      Broadley, D. G. (1968). A review of the African genus Typhlosaurus Wiegmann (Sauria: Scincidae). Arnoldia (Rhodesia) 3 (36): 1-20.
      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.
      Herrmann, H.-W.; W.R. Branch. (2013). Fifty years of herpetological research in the Namib Desert and Namibia with an updated and annotated species checklist. Journal of Arid Environments 93: 94–115.
      Fitzsimons, V. F. M. (1941). Descriptions of some new lizards from South Africa and a frog from southern Rhodesia. Annals Transvaal Mus. 20 (3): 273-281.
      Auerbach, R. D. (1987). The Amphibians and Reptiles of Botswana. Mokwepa Consultants, Botswana, 295 Pp.
      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.
      Huey, R. B., Pianka, E. R., Egan, M. E., & Coons, L. W. (1974). Ecological shifts in sympatry: kalahari fossorial lizards (Typhlosaurus). Ecology 55 (2): 304-316.

      Citation

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