Acontias meleagris (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Linnaeus, C. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Squamata
- family
- Scincidae
- genus
- Acontias
- species
- Acontias meleagris
Name
- Synonyms
- Anguis meleagris Linnaeus, 1758
- Homonyms
- Acontias meleagris (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Common names
- Cape Legless Skink in English
- Cape Legless Skink in English
- Erdslang in English
- Erdslang in English
- Golden Sand Skink in English
- Golden Sand Skink; Spotted Slow Skink; Thick-tailed Blindworm in English
- Linnaeus' Lance Skink in English
- Linnaeus' Lance Skink in English
- Linnaeus' lance skink in language.
- Linneaus' lance skink in English
- Spotted Slow Skink in English
- Thick-tailed Blindworm in English
- Cape Legless Skink in English
- Linnaeus' Lance 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.