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19 December 2012 A New Acontine Skink from Zambia (Scincidae: Acontias Cuvier, 1817)
Philipp Wagner, Donald G. Broadley, Aaron M. Bauer
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Abstract

A new, medium-sized limbless Acontias lizard is described from Zambia. The new species is characterized by a concealed eye, four chin shields bordering the mental, 14 scale rows around midbody, and a unique coloration of a dark dorsum and a pale ventrum. The species is similar to its congener Acontias jappi, but distinct in aspects of pholidosis, and was assigned to the genus Acontias using external morphological as well as osteological characters. The specimen was collected on Kalahari sands at Kataba Forest Reserve in the western part of the country.

Philipp Wagner, Donald G. Broadley, and Aaron M. Bauer "A New Acontine Skink from Zambia (Scincidae: Acontias Cuvier, 1817)," Journal of Herpetology 46(4), 494-502, (19 December 2012). https://doi.org/10.1670/11-055
Accepted: 1 September 2011; Published: 19 December 2012
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