Acontias gracilicauda: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Scincidae
- Genus
- Acontias
- Species
- Acontias gracilicauda
- Scientific Name
- Acontias gracilicauda
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Acontias gracilicauda
Acontias gracilicauda, the slendertail lance skink or thin-tailed legless skink, is a species of skink. It is found in the Republic of South Africa (Eastern Cape Province, Mpumalanga, Free State, North-West Province, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal) and Lesotho. Acontias namaquensis was formerly included in this species as a subspecies, but is now recognized as a distinct species.
...Acontias gracilicauda in languages:
- English
- Thin-tailed Legless Skink
- English
- Slendertail Lance Skink
- Russian
- Тонкохвостый аконтиас
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Acontias albigularis
- Acontias aurantiacus
- Acontias bicolor
- Acontias breviceps
- Acontias cregoi
- Acontias fitzsimonsi
- Acontias gariepensis
- Acontias gracilicauda
- Acontias grayi
- Acontias jappi
- Acontias kgalagadi
- Acontias lineatus
- Acontias lineicauda
- Acontias litoralis
- Acontias meleagris
- Acontias namaquensis
- Acontias occidentalis
- Acontias orientalis
- Acontias parietalis
- Acontias percivali
- Acontias plumbeus
- Acontias richardi
- Acontias rieppeli
- Acontias schmitzi
- Acontias subtaeniatus
- Acontias tristis
- Acontias wakkerstroomensis