Acontias rieppeli

Acontias rieppeli
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

Acontophiops lineatus Sternfeld, 1911

Acontias riepelli, or Woodbush legless skink, 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

  1. World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Acontias riepelli". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
  2. Acontias rieppeli at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 13 January 2014.
  3. 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.


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