Woodbush legless skink
The woodbush legless skink (Acontias rieppeli) is a species of legless skink.[2] It is found in the Wolkberg mountains of Limpopo Province, South Africa. Females of the species give birth to live young. This lizard species was formerly placed in a monotypic (single species) genus as Acontophiops lineatus. Morphologically the genus shows similarities to Acontias cregoi (formerly Typhlosaurus cregoi) and a recent review placed both of these within the genus Acontias, which, as Acontias lineatus was already occupied, required a new name for this species.[3]
| Woodbush legless skink | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Acontias |
| Species: | A. rieppeli |
| Binomial name | |
| Acontias rieppeli Lamb, Biswas & Bauer, 2010 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Acontophiops lineatus Sternfeld, 1911 | |
References
- Conradie, W., Bauer, A.M. & Bates, M.F. 2018. Acontias rieppeli. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T41230A115654575. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T41230A115654575.en. Downloaded on 20 December 2018.
- Acontias rieppeli at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 13 January 2014.
- Lamb, Trip; Sayantan Biswas; Aaron M Bauer (2010). "A phylogenetic reassessment of African fossorial skinks in the subfamily Acontinae (Squamata: Scincidae): evidence for parallelism and polyphyly" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2657: 33–46. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2657.1.3.
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