Acontias gracilicauda

Acontias gracilicauda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Lacertilia
Family:	Scincidae
Genus:	Acontias
Species:	A. gracilicauda
Binomial name
Acontias gracilicauda (Essex, 1925)[1]

Acontias gracilicauda, the slendertail lance skink, is a species of skink found in the Republic of South Africa. Specifically, its range is Little Namaqualand, East Cape and South Transvaal. It has no limbs, like most members of the subfamily Acontinae.^[1]

References

1. JCVI.org

Further reading

• Bauer, A.M., and Branch, W.R. (2003). The herpetofauna of the Richtersveld National Park, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. Herpetological Natural History 8:111-160 [2001]
• Daniels, S. R.; Hendricks, M. G. J.; Heideman, N. J. L.; Wilson, B. A. (1999). "Geographic Distribution. Acontias gracilicauda gracilicauda Essex 1925: Thin-tailed legless skink". African Herp News 29: 43.
• Daniels, S.R.; Heideman, Neil J.L.; Hendricks, Martin G.J.; Mokone, Mphalile E.; Crandall, Keith A. (2005). "Unraveling evolutionary lineages in the limbless fossorial skink genus Acontias (Sauria: Scincidae): are subspecies equivalent systematic units?". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34 (3): 645–654. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.011. PMID 15683935.
• Essex, R. 1925. Descriptions of two new species of the genus Acontias and notes on some other lizards found in the Cape Province. Rec. Albany Mus. 3: 332-342.
• Heideman, N.J.L.; Daniels, S. R.; Mashinini, P. L.; Mokone, M. E.; Thibedi, M. L.; Hendricks, M. G. J.; Wilson, B. A.; Douglas, R. M.; et al. (2008). "Sexual dimorphism in the African legless skink subfamily Acontiinae (Reptilia: Scincidae)". African Zoology 43 (2): 192–201. doi:10.3377/1562-7020-43.2.192.
• Hewitt, J. (1938). "Description of new forms of the genus Acontias". Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa 26: 39–48. doi:10.1080/00359193809519768.