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Thin-tailed Legless Skink
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Thin-tailed Legless Skink

Acontias gracilicauda

Acontias gracilicauda, the slendertail lance skink, is a species of skink found in the Republic of South Africa. Specifically, its range is Little Namaqualand, East Cape and South Transvaal. It has no limbs, like most members of the subfamily Acontinae.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 37305.