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Scelotes bidigittatus FITZSIMONS, 1930

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Lowveld Dwarf Burrowing Skink 
SynonymScelotes bidigittatus FITZSIMONS 1930: 34
Herpetosaura bidigittata — WITTE & LAURENT 1943
Scelotes bidigittata — GREER 1970
Scelotes bidigittatus — BROADLEY 1994
Scelotes bidigittatus — BATES et al. 2014: 270
Scelotes bidigittatus — STANDER 2023: 211 
DistributionRepublic of South Africa (NE Transvaal lowveld, between Soutpansberg and Olifants River), S Mozambique ?, Natal (south to Maputaland)

Type locality: Farm Madrid on Brak River, E. Transvaal  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesHolotype: DNMNH (= TM) (= TMSA) 12921 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Broadley 1994: 245


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CommentLimb morphology: Belongs to the didactyle S. bidigittatus group. This species lost its forelimb entirely and retains only two digits on the hind limb. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin bi = two, and Latin digitus = finger, toe, for the small and rudimentary hind limbs that have only two minute clawed digits. 
References
  • Bates, M.F.; Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M.; Burger, M., Marais, J.; Alexander, G.J. & de Villliers, M.S. (eds.) 2014. Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 512 pp.
  • Branch, William R. 1993. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 144 S.
  • Branch,W.R. 1988. Field Guide to the snakes and other reptiles of southern Africa. Struik Publishers, Cape Town, 328 pp.
  • Broadley, D. G. 1994. The genus Scelotes Fitzinger (Reptilia: Scincidae) in Mozambique, Swaziland and Natal, South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 35: 237-259.
  • FitzSimons, V. F. 1930. Descriptions of new South African Reptilia and Batrachia, with distribution records of allied species in the Transvaal Museum collection. Annals Transvaal Mus. 14: 20-48. - get paper here
  • FitzSimons, V.F. 1943. The lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoir No.1 (Pretoria), 528 pp.
  • Jacobsen,N.H.G. 1987. A new subspecies of Scelotes limpopoensis FITZSIMONS 1930 (Sauria: Scincidae), with notes on the distribution of the genus Scelotes in the Transvaal. Annals Transvaal Mus. 34: 371-376 - get paper here
  • JORDAAN, PHILIPPUS RUDOLPH & JOHAN C.A. STEYL. 2023. Observed sexual dimorphism in the epidermal gland structure and arrangement for the Fossorial Skink Scelotes bidigittatus FitzSimons, 1930 herpetology notes Herpetology Notes 16: 689–691. - get paper here
  • Pienaar, Uys de Villiers 1978. The Reptile Fauna of the Kruger National Park. Pretoria: National Parks Board of South Africa, i-vii, 222 S.
  • Stander, R.I. 2023. The Reptiles of the Limpopo Province and Kruger National Park. Herp Nomad, Polokwane, South Africa, 367 pp. - get paper here
  • Witte, G.F. & R. LAURENT 1943. Contribution à la systématique des formes dégradées de la famille des Scincidae apparentées au genre Scelotes Fitzinger. Mém. Mus. r. Hist. nat. Belg. (sér.2) 26: 44 pp.
 
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