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    Species Accepted

    Acontias rieppeli (Lamb, Biswas & Bauer, 2010)

    Wood-bush Legless Skink
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Acontias
    IUCNEndangered

    Classification and descendants

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Wood-bush Legless Skink English
      Woodbush Legless Skink English

      Bibliography

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      16 results
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      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.
      Welch, K. R. G. (1982). Herpetology of the Old World 2. Preliminary comments on the classification of skinks (family Scincidae) with specific reference to those genera found in Africa, Europe and southwest Asia. Herptile 7 (4): 25.
      Zhao, Z, Goedhals, J, Verdú‐Ricoy, J, Jordaan, A, Heideman, N. (2019). Comparative analysis of the eye anatomy in fossorial and surface‐living skink species (Reptilia: Scincidae), with special reference to the structure of the retina. Acta Zool. 2019; 00: 1– 13.
      FitzSimons, V. F. (1943). The lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoir No.1 (Pretoria), 528 Pp.
      Stander, R. I. (2023). The Reptiles of the Limpopo Province and Kruger National Park. Herp Nomad, Polokwane, South Africa, 367 Pp.
      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.
      Bates, M.F.; Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M.; Burger, M., Marais, J.; Alexander, G.J. & de Villliers, M.S. (eds.). (2014). Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 512 Pp.

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