Synonyms

• Acontophiops Sternfeld, 1912
• Microacontias Daniels, Heideman, Hendricks & Crandall, 2006

Primary references

• Cuvier, G.L. 1817. Le Règne Animal distribué d'après son organisation pour servir de base à l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction à l'anatomie comparée. Avec Figures, dessinées d'après nature. Tome II. Contenant Les reptiles, les poissons, les mollusques et les annélides. Edition 1. Deterville: Paris. pp. i–xviii + 1–532. BHL

Additional references

• Daniels, S.R., Heideman, N.J.L., Hendricks, M.G.J. & Crandall, K.A. 2006. Taxonomic subdivisions within the fossorial skink subfamily Acontinae (Squamata: Scincidae) reconsidered: a multilocus perspective. Zoologica scripta 35(4): 353–362. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00233.x

• 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. 

• Busschau, T., Conradie, W., Jordaan, A. & Daniels, S.R. 2017. Unmasking evolutionary diversity among two closely related South African legless skink species (Acontinae: Acontias) using molecular data. Zoology 121: 72–82. DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2016.11.005 Reference page. 

• Conradie, W., Busschau, T. & Edwards, S. 2018. Two new species of Acontias (Acontinae, Scincidae) from the Mpumalanga Highveld escarpment of South Africa. Zootaxa 4429(1): 89–106. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.1.3 . Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2020. Acontias . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 19 April 2019.

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