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''Acontias'' is a genus of limbless skinks, the lance skinks, (family Scincidae) in the African subfamily Acontinae.〔Branch 2004.〕 Most are small animals, but the largest member of the genus is ''Acontias plumbeus'' at approximately snout-vent length.〔 All members of this genus are live-bearing, sandswimmers, with fused eyelids. A recent review moved species that were formerly placed in the genera ''Typhlosaurus'', ''Acontophiops'', and ''Microacontias'' into this genus, as together these form a single branch in the tree of life. This new concept of ''Acontias'' is a sister lineage to ''Typhlosaurus'', and these two genera are the only genera within the subfamily Acontinae.〔 ==Species== These 21 species are recognized:〔The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.〕 * ''Acontias aurantiacus'' (W. Peters, 1854) * ''Acontias bicolor'' (Hewitt, 1929) * ''Acontias breviceps'' Essex, 1925 – shorthead lance skink * ''Acontias cregoi'' (Boulenger, 1903) * ''Acontias gariepensis'' (V. FitzSimons, 1941) * ''Acontias gracilicauda'' Essex, 1925 * ''Acontias jappi'' (Broadley, 1968) * ''Acontias kgalagadi'' (Lamb, Biswas & Bauer, 2010) * ''Acontias lineatus'' W. Peters, 1879 * ''Acontias litoralis'' Broadley & Greer, 1969 * ''Acontias meleagris'' (Linnaeus, 1758) – Cape legless skink * ''Acontias namaquensis'' Hewitt, 1938 *''Acontias occidentalis'' V. FitzSimons, 1941 * ''Acontias orientalis'' Hewitt, 1938 * ''Acontias percivali'' Loveridge, 1935 – Percival's lance skink * ''Acontias plumbeus'' Bianconi, 1849 * ''Acontias poecilus'' Bourquin & Lambiris, 1996 * ''Acontias richardi'' (Jacobsen, 1987) * ''Acontias rieppeli'' (Lamb, Biswas & Bauer, 2010) *''Acontias schmitzi'' Wagner, Broadley & Bauer, 2012 * ''Acontias tristis'' F. Werner, 1910 ''Nota bene'': A binomial authority in parentheses indicates the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Acontias''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Acontias」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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