The grass skink, grass-top skink, or long-tailed skink (''Trachylepis megalura'') is a
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
of
skink
Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae, a family in the infraorder Scincomorpha. With more than 1,500 described species across 100 different taxonomic genera, the family Scincidae is one of the most diverse families of lizards. Ski ...
found in Africa.
References
Trachylepis
Reptiles described in 1878
Taxa named by Wilhelm Peters
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