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    Species Accepted

    Acontias meleagris (Linnaeus, 1758)

    Cape 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

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      11 results
      Cape Legless Skink English
      Dunkler Lanzenskink German
      Erdslang English
      Golden Sand Skink English
      Golden Sand Skink; Spotted Slow Skink; Thick-tailed Blindworm English
      Kap-Lanzenskink German
      Linnaeus' Lance Skink English
      Spotted Slow Skink English
      Thick-tailed Blindworm English
      Капский аконтиас Russian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      37 results
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      Uetz, P. H., Patel, M., Gbadamosi, Z., Nguyen, A., & Shoope, S. (2024). A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732.
      Duméril, A. M. C. and G. Bibron. (1839). Erpétologie Générale on Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Vol. 5. Roret/Fain et Thunot, Paris, 871 Pp.
      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.
      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].
      Falk and Reed. (2015). Challenges to a molecular approach to prey identification in the Burmese python, Python molurus bivittatus. PeerJ 3:E1445; DOI 10.7717/Peerj.1445.
      Girard, F. (2002). Acontias meleagris meleagris Linnaeus, 1758, Cape Legless Skink. Distribution. African Herp News (34): 30.
      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.
      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.
      Wagner, Philipp; Donald G. Broadley, and Aaron M. Bauer. (2012). A New Acontine Skink from Zambia (Scincidae: Acontias Cuvier, 1817). Journal of Herpetology 46 (4): 494-502.

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