Acontias

Acontias percivali

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincomorpha
Main Page Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Chordata Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Reptilia Subclassis: Diapsida Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Sauria Infraordo: Scincomorpha

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Acontinae
Genus: Acontias
Species (22): A. aurantiacus - A. bicolor - A. breviceps - A. cregoi - A. gariepensis - A. gracilicauda - A. jappi - A. kgalagadi - A. lineatus - A. litoralis - A. meleagris - A. namaquensis - A. orientalis - A. percivali - A. plumbeus - A. poecilus - A. richardi - A. rieppeli - A. tristis

Name

Acontias Cuvier, 1817

Synonyms

• Acontophiops Sternfeld, 1912
• Microacontias Daniels et al., 2006

References

• Daniels, S.R.; Heideman, N.J.L.; Hendricks, M.G.J.; Crandall, K.A. 2006: Taxonomic subdivisions within the fossorial skink subfamily Acontinae (Squamata: Scincidae) reconsidered: a multilocus perspective. Zoologica scripta, 35(4): 353-362. doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00233.x
• Lamb, T.; Biswas, S.; Bauer, A.M. 2010: A phylogenetic reassessment of African fossorial skinks in the subfamily Acontinae (Squamata: Scincidae): evidence for parallelism and polyphyly. Zootaxa, 2657: 33-46. Preview

links

• ION search for Acontias
• ION search for Acontophiops
• ION search for Microacontias
• Nomenclator Zoologicus search for Acontias
• Nomenclator Zoologicus search for Acontophiops
• Nomenclator Zoologicus search for Microacontias [name missing!]

Vernacular names

English: lance skinks