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Acontias  Cuvier, 1817
Taxonomic Serial No.: 1181578

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2022   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassReptilia Laurenti, 1768 – répteis, reptiles, Reptiles  
                         OrderSquamata Oppel, 1811 – Amphisbaenians, Lizards, Snakes, amphisbènes, lézards, serpents  
                            SuborderAutarchoglossa   
                               FamilyScincidae Oppel, 1811 – Skinks  
                                  SubfamilyAcontiinae Gray, 1839  
                                     GenusAcontias Cuvier, 1817  
    Direct Children:  
                                        Species Acontias albigularis Conradie, Busschau and Edwards, 2018 – White-throated Legless Skink 
                                        Species Acontias aurantiacus (Peters, 1854)  
                                        Species Acontias bicolor (Hewitt, 1929)  
                                        Species Acontias breviceps Essex, 1925 – Shortheaded Legless Skink, Shorthead Lance Skink 
                                        Species Acontias cregoi (Boulenger, 1903) – Cregoe's Legless Skink 
                                        Species Acontias fitzsimonsi (Broadley, 1968) – FitzSimon's Legless Skink 
                                        Species Acontias gariepensis (Fitzsimons, 1941) – Mier Kalahari Legless Skink 
                                        Species Acontias gracilicauda Essex, 1925 – Thin-tailed Legless Skink, Slendertail Lance Skink 
                                        Species Acontias grayi Boulenger, 1887 – Gray's Dwarf Legless Skink 
                                        Species Acontias jappi (Broadley, 1968) – Japp's Burrowing Skink, Barotseland Blind Legless Skink 
                                        Species Acontias kgalagadi Lamb, Biswas and Bauer, 2010 – Kalahari Burrowing Skink, Kgalagadi Legless Skink 
                                        Species Acontias lineatus Peters, 1879 – Striped Dwarf Legless Skink, Lined Lance Skink 
                                        Species Acontias litoralis Broadley and Greer, 1969 – Coastal Dwarf Legless Skink 
                                        Species Acontias meleagris (Linnaeus, 1758) – Cape Legless Skink, Golden Sand Skink, Spotted Slow Skink, Thick-tailed Blindworm, Erdslang, Linnaeus' Lance Skink 
                                        Species Acontias namaquensis Hewitt, 1937 – Namaqua Legless Skink, Namaqua Lance Skink 
                                        Species Acontias occidentalis Fitzsimons, 1941 – Western Burrowing Skink, Savanna Legless Skink 
                                        Species Acontias orientalis Hewitt, 1937 – Eastern Striped Blindworm, Eastern Cape Legless Skink 
                                        Species Acontias parietalis (Broadley, 1990) – Maputaland Legless Skink 
                                        Species Acontias percivali Loveridge, 1935 – Percival's Lance Skink, Teita Limbless Skink 
                                        Species Acontias plumbeus Bianconi, 1849 – Giant Legless Skinks, Giant Lance Skink 
                                        Species Acontias richardi (Jacobsen, 1987) – Richard's Legless Skink 
                                        Species Acontias rieppeli Lamb, Biswas and Bauer, 2010 – Wood-bush Legless Skink 
                                        Species Acontias schmitzi Wagner, Broadley and Bauer, 2012  
                                        Species Acontias subtaeniatus (Broadley, 1968) – Stripe-bellied Legless Skink 
                                        Species Acontias tristis Werner, 1910 – Namaqualand Dwarf Legless Skink 
                                        Species Acontias wakkerstroomensis Conradie, Busschau and Edwards, 2018 – Wakkerstroom Legless Skink 
       

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  Source: Reptile Database (Mar 2022), website (version Mar-2022)  
  Acquired: 2002   
  Notes: Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R. & Hosek, J. (eds.) (2022) The Reptile Database, http://www.reptile-database.org, accessed 9 May 2022   
  Reference for: Acontias   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Applegarth, J. S.  
  Publication Date: 1983   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Index to the Genera of Reptilia - A Device to Assist Curators. Sauria (Lacertilia and Amphisbaenia), Third Edition   
  Page(s): 54   
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  Reference for: Acontias   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Lamb, Trip, Sayantan Biswas, and Aaron M. Bauer  
  Publication Date: 2010   
  Article/Chapter Title: A phylogenetic reassessment of African fossorial skinks in the subfamily Acontinae (Squamata: Scincidae): evidence for parallelism and polyphyly   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Zootaxa, vol. 2657   
  Page(s): 33-46   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1175-5326   
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  Reference for: Acontias   
       

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