Acontias kgalagadi kgalagadi Lamb, Biswas and Bauer, 2010

Conradie, Werner, Bills, Roger & Branch, William R., 2016, The herpetofauna of the Cubango, Cuito, and lower Cuando river catchments of south-eastern Angola, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 126) 10 (2), pp. 6-36 : 25

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Acontias kgalagadi kgalagadi Lamb, Biswas and Bauer, 2010 View in CoL

Kalahari Legless Skink

Material: PEM R 20474 (44a). Comment: Acontias k. kgalagadi (previously Typhlosaurus lineatus lineatus – see Lamb et al. 2010) occurs mostly in north-eastern South Africa, extending to northern Namibia and Botswana. Although Broadley (1968) reported a single record of A. jappi from Gago Coutinho district in the south-east of Angola, there are no records of A. k. kgalagadi from the country. This is also the first record ( Fig. 8f View Fig ) of this species in Angola and north of the Okavango River ( Conradie and Bourquin 2013).

References

Broadley DG. 1968. A revision of the African genus Typhlosaurus Wiegmann (Sauria: Scincidae). Arnoldia 3 (36): 1 - 20.

Conradie W, Bourquin S. 2013. Geographical Distributions: Acontias kgalagadi kgalagadi (Lamb, Biswas and Bauer, 2010). African Hep News 60: 29 - 30.

Lamb T, Biswas S, Bauer AM. 2010. A phylogenetic reassessment of African fossorial skinks in the subfamily Acontinae (Squamata: Scincidae): Evidence for parallelism and polyphyly. Zootaxa 2657: 33 - 46.

Figures

Fig. 8. A selection of reptiles from south-eastern Angola. A. Natriciteres olivacea; B. Limnophis bangweolicus; C. Tetradactylus ellenbergeri; D. Zygaspis quadrifrons; E. Typhlacontias rohani; F. Acontias kgalagadi kgalagadi; G. Lubuya ivensii; H. Pelusios bechuanicus.