Leptosiaphos is a genus of Endemism to West Africa.
Species
The following 18
species are recognized:
[. www.reptile-database.org.]
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Leptosiaphos aloysiisabaudiae – Uganda five-toed skink
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Leptosiaphos amieti – Cameroon five-toed skink
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Leptosiaphos blochmanni – Zaire three-toed skink
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Leptosiaphos dewittei – De Witte's leaf-litter skink, De Witte's five-toed skink
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Leptosiaphos dungeri
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Leptosiaphos fuhni – Fuhn's five-toed skink
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Leptosiaphos graueri – Rwanda five-toed skink
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Leptosiaphos hackarsi – Hackars's five-toed skink
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Leptosiaphos hylophilus – Laurenti's five-toed skink
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Leptosiaphos ianthinoxantha – yellow and violet-bellied mountain skink
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Leptosiaphos kilimensis – Kilimanjaro five-toed skink
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Leptosiaphos koutoui
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Leptosiaphos luberoensis – Witte's five-toed skink
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Leptosiaphos meleagris – Ruwenzori four-toed skink
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Leptosiaphos pauliani
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Leptosiaphos rhodurus – red five-toed skink
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Leptosiaphos rhomboidalis Broadley, 1989 – Udzungwa five-toed skink
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Leptosiaphos vigintiserierum (Sjöstedt, 1897) – African five-toed skink
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Leptosiaphos.
Further reading
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Schmidt KP (1943). "Amphibians and Reptiles from the Sudan". Zoological Series of Field Museum of Natural History 24 (29): 331-338. ( Leptosiaphos, new genus, p. 332).