Kingdom Animalia Family Scincidae Scientific name Acontophiops lineatus Rank Species | Class Reptilia Genus Acontias Phylum Chordata Order Scaled reptiles | |
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Acontias riepelli, or Woodbush legless skink, is a species of legless skink. It is found in the Wolkberg mountains of Limpopo Province, South Africa. Females of the species give birth to live young. This lizard species was formerly placed in a monotypic (single species) genus as Acontophiops lineatus. Morphologically the genus shows similarities to Acontias cregoi (formerly Typhlosaurus cregoi) and a recent review placed both of these within the genus Acontias, which, as Acontias lineatus was already occupied, required a new name for this species.
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