Английская Википедия:Acontias meleagris
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Acontias meleagris, or the Cape legless skink, is a species of skink found in the southern Cape of South Africa. It has no limbs, like most members of the subfamily Acontinae.[1]
Description
Its slender, tube-shaped body is golden-brown with tiny black spots. These spots fuse into longitudinal stripes in some specimens.
Distribution
Found in the southern Cape of South Africa, It is usually found burrowing in dry sand as well as beneath boulders, dead trees and other detritus. It gives birth to two to four young in summer.
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- Английская Википедия
- Acontias
- Skinks of Africa
- Endemic reptiles of South Africa
- Fynbos
- Natural history of Cape Town
- Reptiles described in 1758
- Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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