Acontias cregoi (BOULENGER, 1903)
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Higher Taxa | Scincidae, Acontiinae (Acontidae), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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Common Names | E: Cregoe's Legless Skink |
Synonym | Typhlosaurus cregoi BOULENGER 1903: 434 Typhlosaurus cregoi — GREER 2003 Acontias cregoi — LAMB et al. 2010 |
Distribution | Republic of South Africa (N Transvaal) Type locality: Zoutpansberg, Transvaal. |
Reproduction | ovovivparous |
Types | Holotype: BMNH 1946.8.2.93 (1903.3.27.23), collected J.P. Cregoe. |
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Comment | Typhlosaurus (= Acontias) cregoi bicolor HEWITT 1929 has been elevated to full species status. Photo in Elaphe 18 (4): 21 [2010]. Frank & Ramus (1995) erroneously gave “1887” as year of description. Limb morphology: Limbless. Description: Snout conical, strongly projecting. Rostral as long as the other head-shields together; frontal and frontoparietal equal in size, nearly twice as broad as long; a pair of large parietals, forming a suture behind the small interparietal; eye scarcely distinguishable below a small ocular; a larger supraocular; four small upper labiaIs; symphysial very large, extending beyond the posterior border of the rostral, its posterior border very slightly notched in the middle. Scales hexagonal, much broader than long, subequal, 16 round the middle of the body. 'l'ailvery short, rounded at the end. Whitish, above with black longitudinal lines corresponding to the series of scales, beneath with longitudinal series of blackish dots. Size: Total length 150 mm; tail 25 mm (from BOULENGER 1903). |
Etymology | named after Mr. J.P. Cregoe. There were two J. P. Cregoes in South Africa who collected natural history material. This one is presumably after James Plomer Cregoe (1854-1920), as the specimen was received by the British Museum in 1903, and John Plomer Cregoe died in 1901 (G. Shea, pers. comm., 2 Feb 2024). |
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