Pseudoacontias
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Pseudoacontias is genus of skinks, lizards in the family Scincidae.
Geographic range
The genus Pseudoacontias is endemic to Madagascar.[1]
Description
All species of Pseudoacontias are large, fossorial skinks, measuring at least Script error: No such module "convert". in snout–vent length. They lack limbs or have greatly reduced limbs.[2][3]
Species
The genus contains the following species:[1]
- Pseudoacontias angelorum Raxworthy & Nussbaum, 1995Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pseudoacontias madagascariensis Bocage, 1889Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – giant Madagascar skink
- Pseudoacontias menamainty Andreone & Greer, 2002Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pseudoacontias unicolor Sakata & Hikida, 2003Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Etymology
The specific name, angelorum (genitive, masculine, plural), is in honor of twin brothers Angelien and Angeluc Razafimanantsoa who are Madagascan naturalists.[4]
References
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- ↑ a b Pseudoacontias at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 29 April 2014.
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- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Template:ISBN. (Pseudoacontias angelorum, p. 9).
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Further reading
- Bocage JVB (1889). "Mélanges erpétologiques. I.—Sur un Scincoidien nouveau de Madagascar ". Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, Segunda Série 1: 125–126. (Pseudoacontias, new genus, p. 125; P. madagascariensis, new species, pp. 125–126). (in French).