Scolecoseps is a genus of , lizards in the family Scincidae. The genus is Endemism to East Africa.
Species
Genus Scolecoseps contains four
species.
[. www.reptile-database.org.]
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Scolecoseps acontias – sandy limbless skink
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Scolecoseps boulengeri – Boulenger's limbless skink
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Scolecoseps broadleyi
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Scolecoseps litipoensis – Litipo sand skink
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Scolecoseps.
Gallery
File:Boulenger's Limbless Skink imported from iNaturalist photo 202167565.jpg|Boulenger's Limbless Skink ( Scolecoseps boulengeri)
Further reading
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Arthur Loveridge (1920). "Notes on East African Lizards collected in 1915–1919, with Description of a new Genus and Species of Skink and new Subspecies of Gecko". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1920: 131–167. ( Scolecoseps, new genus, p. 159).
