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Acontias is a genus of limbless skinks, the lance skinks, (family Scincidae) in the African subfamily Acontinae. Most are small animals, but the largest member of the genus is Acontias plumbeus at approximately 40 cm (16 in) snout-vent length. All members of this genus are live-bearing sandswimmers, with fused eyelids. A recent review moved species that were formerly placed in the genera Typhlosaurus, Acontophiops, and Microacontias into this genus, as together these form a single branch in the tree of life. This new concept of Acontias is a sister lineage to Typhlosaurus, and these two genera are the only genera within the subfamily Acontinae.




Species


These 24 species are recognized:

Acontias albigularis Conradie, Busschau, & Edwards, 2018 – white-throated legless skink
Acontias aurantiacus (W. Peters, 1854) – golden blind legless skink
Acontias bicolor (Hewitt, 1929)
Acontias breviceps Essex, 1925 – shorthead lance skink
Acontias cregoi (Boulenger, 1903) – Cregoe's legless skink
Acontias fitzsimonsi (Broadley, 1968) – Fitzsimons's legless skink
Acontias gariepensis (V. FitzSimons, 1941) – Mier Kalahari legless skink
Acontias gracilicauda Essex, 1925 – thin-tailed legless skink, slendertail lance skink
Acontias jappi (Broadley, 1968) – Japp’s burrowing skink
Acontias kgalagadi (Lamb, Biswas & Bauer, 2010) – Kalahari burrowing skink, Kgalagadi legless skink
Acontias lineatus W. Peters, 1879 – striped dwarf legless skink, lined lance skink
Acontias meleagris (Linnaeus, 1758) – Cape legless skink, golden sand skink; spotted slow skink; thick-tailed blindworm, erdslang, Linnaeus's lance skink
Acontias mukwando Marques, Parrinha, Tiutenko, Lopes-Lima, Bauer & Ceríaco, 2023 – Serra da Neve lance-skink
Acontias namaquensis Hewitt, 1938 – Namaqua legless skink, Namaqua lance skink
Acontias occidentalis V. FitzSimons, 1941 – western burrowing skink, savanna legless skink
Acontias orientalis Hewitt, 1938 – eastern striped blindworm, Eastern Cape legless skink
Acontias parietalis (Broadley, 1990) – Maputaland legless skink
Acontias percivali Loveridge, 1935 – Percival's lance skink, Teita limbless skink
Acontias plumbeus Bianconi, 1849 – giant legless skink, giant lance skink
Acontias richardi (Jacobsen, 1987) – Richard’s legless skink
Acontias rieppeli (Lamb, Biswas & Bauer, 2010) – Woodbush legless skink
Acontias schmitzi Wagner, Broadley & Bauer, 2012
Acontias subtaeniatus (Broadley, 1968) – stripe-bellied legless skink
Acontias wakkerstroomensis Conradie, Busschau, & Edwards, 2018 – Wakkerstroom legless skink
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates the species was originally described in a genus other than Acontias.




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Further reading


Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Scincidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (Genus Acontias, p. 424).
Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised Edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. ISBN 0-88359-042-5. (Genus Acontias, p. 132).
Cuvier G (1817). Le règne animale distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée. Tome II, contenant les reptiles, les poissons, les mollusques et les annélides. Paris: Déterville. xviii + 532 pp. (Acontias, new subgenus, p. 60). (in French).

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Mengkarung
• Agkistrodon
• Feylinia elegans
• Acontias
• Acontias (disambiguation)
• Woodbush legless skink
• Acontia (anatomy)
• Acontias mukwando
• Ethmia acontias
• Acontias albigularis
• Acontias bicolor
• Acontias kgalagadi
• Acontias lineatus