Acontias aurantiacus (Peters, 1854)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Peters, W. C. H. Diagnosen neuer Batrachier, welche zusammen mit der früher (24. Juli und 17. August) gegebenen Übersicht der Schlangen und Eidechsen mitgetheilt werden.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Squamata
- family
- Scincidae
- genus
- Acontias
- species
- Acontias aurantiacus
Name
- Synonyms
- Typhline aurantiaca Peters, 1854
- Typhlosaurus aurantiacus bazarutoensis Broadley, 1990
- Typhlosaurus aurantiacus carolinensis Broadley, 1990
- Homonyms
- Acontias aurantiacus (Peters, 1854)
- Common names
- Golden Blind Legless Skink in English
Bibliographic References
- 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.