Acontias parietalis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scincoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Scincomorpha Superfamilia: Scincoidea

Familia: Scincidae
Subfamilia: Acontinae
Genus: Acontias
Species: Acontias parietalis

Name

Acontias parietalis (Broadley, 1990)

• Holotype: NMZB 9803.
• Type locality: “Inhaca Island, Mozambique”.

Combinations

• Typhlosaurus aurantiacus parietalis Broadley, 1990: 480 [original combination, as subspecies]
• Acontias aurantiacus parietalis — Lamb, Biswas & Bauer, 2010: 42 [subsequent combination]
• Acontias parietalis — Bates, Branch, Bauer, Burger, Marais, Alexander & Villiers, 2014: 253 [subsequent combination, elevated to species]

References

Primary references

• Broadley, D.G. 1990. The herpetofaunas of the islands off the coast of South Moçambique. Arnoldia 9(35): 469–493. Reference page. 
• Lamb, T., Biswas, S. & Bauer, A.M. 2010. A phylogenetic reassessment of African fossorial skinks in the subfamily Acontinae (Squamata: Scincidae): evidence for parallelism and polyphyly. Zootaxa 2657: 33–46. Preview Reference page. 

Additional references

• Pietersen, D.W., Scholtz, C.H. & Bastos, A.D.S. 2018. Multi-locus phylogeny of southern African Acontias aurantiacus (Peters) subspecies (Scincidae: Acontinae) confirms the presence of three genetically, geographically and morphologically discrete taxa. Zootaxa 4442(3): 427–440. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4442.3.5 Reference page. 

Links

• Pietersen, D., Verburgt, L., Farooq, H. & Chapeta, Y. 2022. IUCN: Acontias parietalis  (Least Concern) (amended version of 2021 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T110230048A217542237. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T110230048A217542237.en. Accessed on 29 December 2023.

Vernacular names

English: Golden Blind Legless Skink