| Scelotes | |
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| Scelotes mossambicus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Scincinae |
| Genus: | Scelotes Fitzinger, 18261 |
Scelotes is a genus of small African skinks.2
Species
The following 21 species are recognized as being valid.3
- Scelotes anguinus (Boulenger, 1887) – Algoa dwarf burrowing skink, Boulenger's burrowing skink,4
- Scelotes arenicola (W. Peters, 1854) – Zululand dwarf burrowing skink
- Scelotes bidigittatus V. FitzSimons, 1930 – Lowveld dwarf burrowing skink
- Scelotes bipes (Linnaeus, 1766) – silvery dwarf burrowing skink, common burrowing skink
- Scelotes caffer (W. Peters, 1861) – Cape dwarf burrowing skink, Peters's burrowing skink
- Scelotes capensis (A. Smith, 1849) – western dwarf burrowing skink, cape burrowing skink
- Scelotes duttoni Broadley, 1990
- Scelotes farquharsoni Raw, 20205
- Scelotes fitzsimonsi Broadley, 1994 – Fitzsimons's dwarf burrowing skink
- Scelotes gronovii (Daudin, 1802) – Gronovi's dwarf burrowing skink
- Scelotes guentheri Boulenger, 1887 – Günther's dwarf burrowing skink
- Scelotes inornatus (A. Smith, 1849) – Durban dwarf burrowing skink, legless burrowing skink
- Scelotes insularis Broadley, 1990
- Scelotes kasneri V. FitzSimons, 1939 – Kasner's dwarf burrowing skink
- Scelotes limpopoensis V. FitzSimons, 1930 – Limpopo burrowing skink
- Scelotes mirus (Roux, 1907) – montane dwarf burrowing skink
- Scelotes montispectus Bauer, Whiting & Sadlier, 2003 – Bloubergstrand dwarf burrowing skink
- Scelotes mossambicus (W. Peters, 1882) – Mozambique dwarf burrowing skink
- Scelotes poensis Bocage, 1895 – Fernando Po burrowing skink
- Scelotes sexlineatus (Harlan, 1824) – striped dwarf burrowing skink
- Scelotes uluguruensis Barbour & Loveridge, 1928 – Uluguru fossorial skink
- Scelotes vestigifer Broadley, 1994 – coastal dwarf burrowing skink
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Scelotes.
References
References
- "Scelotes ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de.
- Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. ISBN 0-88359-042-5. (Genus Scelotes, pp. 139-140).
- Genus Scelotes at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org
- Raw LRG (2022). "Historical and current misuse of gender agreement in the names of South African lizard species". ZooNova 18: 1-5. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6497956
- Raw LRG (2020). "A New Species of Scelotes". ZooNova. 1 (4): 40–48. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3685541. (Scelotes farquharsoni, new species).
Further reading
Further reading
- Fitzinger L (1826). Neue Classification der Reptilien nach ihren natürlichen Verwandtschaften. Nebst einer Verwandtschafts-tafel und einem Verzeichnisse der Reptilien-Sammlung des k.k. zoologischen Museums zu Wien. Vienna: J.G. Heubner. 5 unnumbered pp. + 67 pp. + one plate. (Scelotes, new genus, pp. 23, 53). (in German and Latin).