''Scolecoseps'' is a
genus
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of
skinks, lizards in the
family
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Scincidae. The genus is
endemic
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to
East Africa.
Species
Genus
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''Scolecoseps'' contains four
species
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.
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Scolecoseps acontias'' – sandy limbless skink
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Scolecoseps boulengeri'' – Boulenger's limbless skink
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Scolecoseps broadleyi''
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Scolecoseps litipoensis'' – Litipo sand skink
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Nota bene
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'': A
binomial authority
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in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Scolecoseps''.
Gallery
File:Boulenger's Limbless Skink imported from iNaturalist photo 202167565.jpg, Boulenger's Limbless Skink (''Scolecoseps boulengeri'')
References
Further reading
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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).
Scolecoseps
Lizard genera
Taxa named by Arthur Loveridge
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