Acontias parietalis (BROADLEY, 1990)

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Acontinae; Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Maputaland Legless Skink
Synonym	Typhlosaurus aurantiacus parietalis BROADLEY 1990 Acontias aurantiacus parietalis — LAMB et al. 2010 Acontias parietalis — BATES et al. 2014: 253 Acontias parietalis — PIETERSEN et al. 2018 Acontias auranticus parietalis — JORDAAN et al. 2020 (in error)
Distribution	S Zimbabwe, S Mozambique, S Botswana, Inhaca Island, Mozambique Type locality: Inhaca Island, Mozambique.
Reproduction	viviparous
Types	Holotype: NMZB 9803, paratypes: PEM (formerly AMG1597)
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (parietalis): This southern race is distinguished from the other subspecies by the distinctive fusion of posterior supraocular and parietal (in 81%). In size and ventral counts it agrees with the typical form. Traces of black dorsal stripes are restricted to the tail in large adults.
Comment	Limb morphology: Limbless.
Etymology	Etymology (parietalis): The name parietalis refers to the fusion of the posterior subocular with the parietal, which is diagnostic for this subspecies.
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 CONRADIE, WERNER; WILLIAM R. BRANCH, & GILLIAN WATSON 2019. Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 2: Reptiles (Squamata). Zootaxa 4576 (1): 001–045 - 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 - get paper here Jordaan, P.R., Steyl, J.C.A., Hanekom, C.C., Xander Combrink 2020. Fire-associated reptile mortality in Tembe Elephant Park, South Africa. Fire Ecol (2020) 16: 3 - get paper here 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
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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