Melanoseps is a genus of , known Common name as limbless skinks, in the family Scincidae. The genus is Endemism to Sub-Saharan Africa.
Species
The following eight
species are recognized as being valid.
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Melanoseps ater – black limbless skink.
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Melanoseps emmrichi – Uluguru limbless skink.
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Melanoseps longicauda – Pangani black limbless skink, longtail limbless skink
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Melanoseps loveridgei – Loveridge's limbless skink
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Melanoseps occidentalis – western limbless skink
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Melanoseps pygmaeus – pygmy limbless skink
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Melanoseps rondoensis – Rondo limbless skink
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Melanoseps uzungwensis – Udzungwa limbless skink
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Melanoseps.
Further reading
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Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Scincidæ ... . London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I–XL. ( Melanoseps, new genus, p. 422).
