Scelotes sexlineatus (HARLAN, 1824)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Striped Dwarf Burrowing Skink
Synonym	Seps 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
Distribution	Republic of South Africa (Little Namaqualand, from Port Nolloth to Clanwilliam)
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: ANSP (not found by Malnate, 1971), no locality or collector.
Diagnosis
Comment	Synonymy: 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.
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., and 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 and 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
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/reptiles/squamata/scincidae/Scelotes… Google images

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