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Scelotes sexlineatus (HARLAN, 1824)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Striped Dwarf Burrowing Skink 
SynonymSeps sexlineatus HARLAN 1824: 284
Seps sexlineatus — BOULENGER 1887: 414
Scelotes bipes sexlineatus — WELCH 1982: 75
Scelotes sexlineatus — WHITING et al. 2003
Scelotes sexlineatus — BATES et al. 2014: 280 
DistributionRepublic of South Africa (Little Namaqualand, from Port Nolloth to Clanwilliam)  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesHolotype: ANSP (not found by Malnate, 1971), no locality or collector. 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy: Listed as a synonym of Scelotes bipes by BOULENGER 1887: 414.

Limb morphology: This species lost its forelimb entirely and retains only two digits on the hind limb. 
EtymologyApparently named after the Latin words sex (meaning six) and lineatus (meaning 'of a line'), for the six lines on the dorsal side of this species. 
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.
  • Bauer, A.M., Whiting, A.S., & Sadlier, R.A. 2003. A new species of Scelotes, from near Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 54:231-237. - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G. A. 1887. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) III. Lacertidae, Gerrhosauridae, Scincidae, Anelytropsidae, Dibamidae, Chamaeleontidae. London: 575 pp. - get paper here
  • 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.
  • Harlan, R. 1824. Description of a new species of biped Seps. J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 4: 284-286 - get paper here
  • Heideman, Neil J.L.; Daniel G. Mulcahy, Jack W. Sites, Martin G.J. Hendricks, Savel R. Daniels 2011. Cryptic diversity and morphological convergence in threatened species of fossorial skinks in the genus Scelotes (Squamata: Scincidae) from the Western Cape Coast of South Africa: Implications for species boundaries, digit reduction and conservation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61 (3): 823-833 - get paper here
  • Welch, K.R.G. 1982. Herpetology of Africa; a checklist and bibliography of the orders Amphisbaenia, Sauria, and Serpentes. Robert E. Krieger Pub. Co., Malabar, FL 293 pp.
  • Whiting, A.S.; Aaron M. Bauer & Jack W. Sites, Jr. 2003. Phylogenetic relationships and limb loss in sub-Saharan African scincine lizards (Squamata: Scincidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 29 (3): 582-598 - get paper here
 
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