Acontias occidentalis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincomorpha
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Infraordo: Scincomorpha

Acontias occidentalis FitzSimons, 1941

Lectotype: PEM R5105 (formerly AMG 6064), collected by K. Bradfield on 23 April 1929. [designated by Mertens (1955: 74)]
Type locality: “Okahandja (Namibia)” via lectotype selection.
Paralectotypes (n=2): PEM R5113–5114 (formerly AMG 5978), from “Honingfontein, near Nylstroom”, Limpopo Province, South Africa, collected by J. MacCallum on 18 December 1928.

Acontias plumbeus occidentalis FitzSimons, 1941: 275 [original combination, as subspecies]
Acontias percivali occidentalis — Broadley & Greer, 1969: 20 [subsequent combination]
Acontias occidentalis — Lamb, Biswas & Bauer, 2010: 41 [subsequent combination, elevated to species]

FitzSimons, V. 1941. Descriptions of some new lizards from South Africa and a frog from Southern Rhodesia. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 20(1): 273–291. Reference page.
Mertens, R. 1955. Die Amphibien und Reptilien Südwestafrikas. Aus den Ergebnissen einer im Jahre 1952 ausgeführten Reise. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 490: 1–172.
Broadley, D.G. & Greer, A.E. 1969. A revision of the genus Acontias Cuvier (Sauria: Scincidae). Arnoldia Rhodesia 4(26): 1–29. Reference page.
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(1): 33–46. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2657.1.3 Reference page.

Conradie, W., Branch, W.R. & Watson, G. 2019. Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 2: Reptiles (Squamata). Zootaxa 4576(1): 1–45. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1 Reference page.

Pietersen, D., Verburgt, L., Farooq, H. & Chapeta, Y. 2021. IUCN: Acontias occidentalis (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T44960156A147703771. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T44960156A147703771.en. Accessed on 21 January 2026.