Woodbush legless skink
| Woodbush legless skink | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Scinciformata |
| Infraorder: | Scincomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Acontoidea |
| Family: | Acontidae |
| Genus: | Acontias |
| Species: | A. rieppeli
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| Binomial name | |
| Acontias rieppeli Lamb, Biswas & Bauer, 2010
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| Synonyms | |
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Acontophiops lineatus Sternfeld, 1911 | |
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]
References
- ^ Pietersen, D.; Conradie, W.; Bauer, A.M.; Bates, M.F.; Tolley, K.A.; Alexander, G.J.; Weeber, J. (2022). "Acontias rieppeli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T41230A197402954. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
- ^ 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.