Pseudoacontias madagascariensis BOCAGE, 1889

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Scincinae, Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Giant Madagascar Skink
Synonym	Pseudoacontias madagascariensis BARBOZA DU BOCAGE 1889 Pseudoacontias madagascariensis — ANGEL 1942: 120 Pseudoacontias madagascariensis — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1943 Pseudacontias madagascariensis — BRYGOO 1980: 910 Pseudoacontias madagascariensis — GLAW & VENCES 1994: 321 Pseudoacontias madagascariensis — SCHMITZ et al. 2005
Distribution	Madagascar Type locality: not given by Bocage (unknown)
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: lost (fide BRYGOO 1980).
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (genus): “Dents coniques; palais non denté. Paupiére inférieure écailleuse. Pas d'ouverture auriculaire visible. Narines s'ouvrant entre trois plaques: la rostrale, la supéro-nasale et la premiére labiale. Une fronto-nasale; pas de pré-frontales ni de fronto-pariétales. Corps fort allongé, sans membres.” (Bocage 1889) Unfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 4328 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Limb morphology: Limbless; no ear openings visible. Type Species: Pseudoacontias madagascariensis is the type species of the genus Pseudoacontias BOCAGE 1889. Only known from a single specimen. Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	Named after the type locality. The genus was named after its similarity to the genus Acontias, from Greek pseudo (ψευδο) = false, untrue, mistaken.
References	Angel, F. 1942. Les Lézards de Madagascar. Mem. Acad. Malagache, Tananarive XXXVI: 193 pp. Bocage, J.V.B. de 1889. Mélanges erpétologiques. I. Sur un Scincoidien nouveau de Madagascar. J. Sci. math. phys. natur. (Lisboa) (2) 2: 125-126 Brygoo,E.R. 1980. Systématique des lézards scincides de la région malgache. III. les ‘Acontias’ de Madagascar. Pseudacontias BARBOZA DU BOCAGE, 1899, Paracontias, MOCQUARD 1894, Pseudacontias, HEWITT 1929, et Malacontias, GREER 1970. IV. Amphiglossus reticulatus (KAUDERN 1922) nov. comb., troisième espèce du genre; ses rapports avec Amphiglossus waterloti (ANGEL 1920). Bull. Mus. natl. Hist. nat. Paris, 4th ser., Sect. A., 2 (3): 905-918 Glaw ,F. & Vences, M. 1994. A Fieldguide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar. Vences & Glaw Verlag, Köln (ISBN 3-929449-01-3) Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions 24 (2): 262-273 - get paper here Nussbaum, R. A. & C. J. RAXWORTHY 1995. Review of the scincine genus Pseudoacontias BARBOZA DU BOCAGE (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) of Madagascar. Herpetologica 51 (1): 91-99. - get paper here Sakata, S. & Hikida, T. 2003. A new fossorial scincine lizard of the genus Pseudoacontias (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from Nosy Be, Madagascar. Amphibia-Reptilia 24 (1): 57-64 - get paper here Schmitz, A.; M.C. Brandley; P. Mausfeld; M. Vences; F. Glaw; R.A. Nussbaum and T.W. Reeder 2005. Opening the black box: phylogenetics and morphological evolution of the Malagasy fossorial lizards of the subfamily “Scincinae”. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34: 118–133 (published online 2004) - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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