Scolecoseps
Scolecoseps | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Scincidae |
Subfamily: | Scincinae |
Genus: | Scolecoseps Loveridge, 1920[1] |
Scolecoseps is a genus of skinks, lizards in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to East Africa.
Species[]
Genus Scolecoseps contains four species.[2]
- Scolecoseps acontias (F. Werner, 1913) – sandy limbless skink
- Scolecoseps boulengeri Loveridge, 1920 – Boulenger's limbless skink
- Scolecoseps broadleyi , & Branch, 2018
- Scolecoseps litipoensis Broadley, 1995 – Litipo sand skink
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Scolecoseps.
References[]
- ^ "Scolecoseps ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/lacertilia/scincomorpha/scincidae/scincinae.
- ^ Genus Scolecoseps at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading[]
- Loveridge A (1920). "Notes on East African Lizards collected in 1915–1919, with Description of a new Genus and Species of Skink and new Subspecies of Gecko". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1920: 131–167. (Scolecoseps, new genus, p. 159).
Categories:
- Scolecoseps
- Lizard genera
- Taxa named by Arthur Loveridge
- Skink stubs