Woodbush legless skink
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Template:Short description Template:Speciesbox The woodbush legless skink (Acontias rieppeli) is a species of legless skink.[1] 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.[2]
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- ↑ Acontias rieppeli at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 13 January 2014.
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