Acontias
Taxonavigation
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Acontinae
Genus:
Species (25):
A. albigularis –
A. aurantiacus –
A. bicolor –
A. breviceps –
A. cregoi –
A. fitzsimonsi –
A. gariepensis –
A. gracilicauda –
A. jappi –
A. kgalagadi –
A. lineatus –
A. lineicauda –
A. meleagris –
A. mukwando –
A. namaquensis –
A. occidentalis –
A. orientalis –
A. parietalis –
A. percivali –
A. plumbeus –
A. richardi –
A. rieppeli –
A. schmitzi –
A. subtaeniatus –
A. wakkerstroomensis
Name
- Type species: Anguis meleagris Linnaeus, 1758, by monotypy.
Synonyms
- Acontophiops Sternfeld, 1912
- Type species: Acontophiops lineatus Sternfeld, 1912, by monotypy.
- Microacontias Daniels, Heideman, Hendricks & Crandall, 2006: 360
- Type species: Acontias lineatus Peters, 1879, by original designation.
References
Primary references
- Cuvier, G.L. 1817. Le Règne Animal distribué d'après son organisation pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. Avec Figures, dessinées d'après nature. Tome II. Contenant Les reptiles, les poissons, les mollusques et les annélides. Edition 1. Deterville: Paris. pp. i–xviii + 1–532. BHL
- Daniels, S.R., Heideman, N.J.L., Hendricks, M.G.J. & Crandall, K.A. 2006. Taxonomic subdivisions within the fossorial skink subfamily Acontinae (Squamata: Scincidae) reconsidered: a multilocus perspective. Zoologica scripta 35(4): 353–362. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00233.x
Additional references
- Lamb, T., Biswas, S. & Bauer, A.M. 2010. A phylogenetic reassessment of African fossorial skinks in the subfamily Acontinae (Squamata: Scincidae): evidence for parallelism and polyphyly. Zootaxa 2657(1): 33–46. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2657.1.3
Reference page. - Busschau, T., Conradie, W., Jordaan, A. & Daniels, S.R. 2017. Unmasking evolutionary diversity among two closely related South African legless skink species (Acontinae: Acontias) using molecular data. Zoology 121: 72–82. DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2016.11.005 Reference page.
- Conradie, W., Busschau, T. & Edwards, S. 2018. Two new species of Acontias (Acontinae, Scincidae) from the Mpumalanga Highveld escarpment of South Africa. Zootaxa 4429(1): 89–106. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.1.3. Reference page.
- Zhao, Z.-N., Verdú‐Ricoy, J., Mohlakoana, S., Jordaan, A., Conradie, W. & Heideman, N. 2019. Unexpected phylogenetic relationships within the world's largest limbless skink species (Acontias plumbeus) highlight the need for a review of the taxonomic status of Acontias poecilus. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 57(2): 445–460. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12263 Reference page.
- Marques, M.P., Parrinha, D., Tiutenko, A., Lopes-Lima, M., Bauer, A.M. & Ceríaco, L.M.P. 2023. A new species of African legless skink, genus Acontias Cuvier, 1816 "1817" (Squamata: Scincidae) from Serra da Neve inselberg, south-western Angola. African Journal of Herpetology 72(2): 145–162. DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2023.2246487 ; ResearchGate
Reference page. - Zhao, Z.-N., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D.W., Jordaan, A., Nicolau, G., Edwards, S., Riekert, S. & Heideman, N. 2023. Diversification of the African legless skinks in the subfamily Acontinae (Family Scincidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 182: 107747. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107747 Reference page.
Links
- Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Acontias . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 10 September 2024.
Vernacular names
- English: Lance Skinks