Scolecoseps
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Scolecoseps is a genus of skinks, lizards in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to East Africa.
SpeciesEdit
Genus Scolecoseps contains four species.<ref>Template:EMBL genus. www.reptile-database.org.</ref>
- Scolecoseps acontias Template:Small – sandy limbless skink
- Scolecoseps boulengeri Template:Small – Boulenger's limbless skink
- Scolecoseps broadleyi Template:Small
- Scolecoseps litipoensis Template:Small – Litipo sand skink
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Scolecoseps.
GalleryEdit
- Boulenger's Limbless Skink imported from iNaturalist photo 202167565.jpg
Boulenger's Limbless Skink (Scolecoseps boulengeri)
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- 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).