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Acontias fitzsimonsi (BROADLEY, 1968)

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Acontiinae (Acontidae), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: FitzSimon's Legless Skink 
SynonymTyphlosaurus aurantiacus fitzsimonsi BROADLEY 1968
Acontias aurantiacus fitzsimonsi — LAMB et al. 2010
Acontias fitzsimonsi — BATES et al. 2014: 239
Acontias fitzsimonsi — PIETERSEN et al. 2018
Acontias fitzsimonsi — ZHAO et al. 2023 
DistributionRepublic of South Africa

Type locality: Niandu Bush, Wambia Sandveld, Kruger National Park, Transvaal.  
Reproductionovovivparous 
TypesHolotype. DNMNH (= TM) 28946. Collected by W. D. Haacke and K. N. P. biologists, September 1963 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A race of T. aurantiacus distinguished from the typical form by fusion of (a) anterior supraciliary with preocular; (b) posterior supraciliary with ocular; (c) posterior subocular with postocular; (d) upper temporal with anterior nuchal (Broadley 1968). 
CommentLimb morphology: Limbless. 
EtymologyNamed after Vivian F. M. Fitzsimons (1901-1975), South African herpetologist. See also Haacke 1975. 
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.; Günther,R. & Klipfel,M. 1995. The herpetological contributions of Wilhelm C.H. Peters (1815-1883). SSAR Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology, 714 pp.
  • Broadley D G 1990. The herpetofaunas of the islands off the coast of south Mocambique. Arnoldia Zimbabwe 9 (35): 469-493
  • Broadley, D.G. 1968. A review of the African genus Typhlosaurus Wiegmann (Sauria: Scincidae). Arnoldia (Rhodesia) 3 (36): 1-20
  • Haacke, W. D. 1975. Obituaries on African Herpetologists- Fitzsimons, V. F. M. 1901 - 1975. J. Herp. Assoc. Africa (14): 33-35 - get paper here
  • Jacobsen, Niels H.G.; Errol W. Pietersen & Darren W. Pietersen 2010. A preliminary herpetological survey of the Vilanculos Coastal Wildlife Sanctuary on the San Sebastian Peninsula, Vilankulo, Mozambique. Herpetology Notes 3: 181-193
  • Lamb, T.; Biswas, S. & Bauer, A.M. 2010. A phylogenetic reassessment of African fossorial skinks in the subfamily Acontinae (Squamata: Scincidae): evidence for parallelism and polyphyly. Zootaxa 2657: 33–46 - get paper here
  • Peters,W.C.H. 1854. Diagnosen neuer Batrachier, welche zusammen mit der früher (24. Juli und 17. August) gegebenen Übersicht der Schlangen und Eidechsen mitgetheilt werden. Ber. Bekanntmach. Geeignet. Verhandl. Königl.-Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854: 614-628
  • PIETERSEN, DARREN W.; CLARKE H. SCHOLTZ & ARMANDA D.S. BASTOS 2018. Multi-locus phylogeny of southern African Acontias aurantiacus (Peters) subspecies (Scincidae: Acontinae) confirms the presence of three genetically, geographically and morphologically discrete taxa. Zootaxa 4442 (3): 427–440 - get paper here
  • Wagner, Philipp; Donald G. Broadley, and Aaron M. Bauer 2012. A New Acontine Skink from Zambia (Scincidae: Acontias Cuvier, 1817). Journal of Herpetology 46 (4): 494-502. - get paper here
  • Zhao, Z., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D.W., Jordaan, A., Nicolau, G., Edwards, S., Riekert, S., Heideman, N. 2023. Diversification of the African legless skinks in the subfamily Acontinae (Family Scincidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution - get paper here
 
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