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East African Legless Skink
Acontias aurantiacus
Acontias aurantiacus, the golden blind legless skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. It is found in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, and South Africa.
Three subspecies are recognized:Acontias aurantiacus aurantiacus (Peters, 1854)
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Description
These are small to medium (69–216 mm snout-vent length) legless fossorial lizards with reduced eyes and pronounced rostral scales used in digging. The body is plain golden-yellow, with occasional melanistic or mottled individuals appearing in the population.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 37709.