Acontias
Creators: name: Lamb, Trip
name: Biswas, Sayantan
name: Bauer, Aaron M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Scincidae
Acontias

description: Acontias
A. aurantiacus: PEM R16793, PEM R16794, Kosi Camp Site, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa (26°57’34.8” S, 32°49’28.6” E) [HQ180097, HQ180070, HQ180043, HQ 180124]*
A. bicolor: CAS 209628, summit of Murewha's Hill, Zimbabwe [HQ180099, HQ180072, HQ180045, HQ 180126]
A. breviceps: MB 00447, Farm High Water, ca 74 km SW of Cedarville, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa (30°30'44" S, 28°54'29" E) [HQ180090, HQ180063, HQ180036, HQ 180117]
A. cregoi: CAS 234196, CAS 234197, Lajuma Wilderness Camp, Limpopo Province, South Africa (23°02'21" S, 29°26'59" E) [HQ180098, HQ180071, HQ180044, HQ 180125]*
A. gariepensis: CAS 214467, CAS 214520, Farm Avondsehijn, Kalahari Guest Farm, Northern Cape Province, South Africa (26°54'07" S, 21°05'25" E) [HQ180083, HQ180056, HQ180029, HQ 180110]*
A. gracilicauda: MB00190 (25°23'30" S, 30°08'56" E); MB21093, 10 Groen Street (29°39'46" S, 22°45'03" E) [HQ180089, HQ180062, HQ180035, HQ 180116]*
A. jappi: MB 20386, near Kabula Tiger Lodge, SW Zambia (17°01’40” S, 23°58’29” E) [HQ180082, HQ180055, HQ180028, HQ 180109]
A. kgalagadi: CAS 214459, Farm Avondsehijn, Kalahari Guest Farm, Northern Cape Province, South Africa (26°54'07" S, 21°05'25" E); CAS 206986, Jct. Hwy D511 and Hwy C17 (Koes Rd.), Namibia [HQ180080, HQ180053, HQ180026, HQ 180107]
A. lineatus: CAS 201850, PEM R 12477, 20 km N. Poffadder on Onseepkans Rd., Northern Cape Province, South Africa (28°58’38” S, 19°24’03” E) [HQ180086, HQ180059, HQ180032, HQ 180113]*
A. “ lineicauda ”: No number, Schoenmakerskop, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa [HQ180091, HQ180064, HQ180037, HQ 180118]
A. litoralis: CAS 206845, Brandberg, Farms Kourootje and Kap Vley, DeBeers mining area, Northern Cape Province, South Africa (29°49’52” S, 17°22’35” E); CAS 206800, vic. McDougall's Bay water tank, Northern Cape Province, South Africa [HQ180084, HQ180057, HQ18003, HQ 180111]*
A. “ meleagris ”: CAS 206704, Jacobsbaai, Western Cape Province, South Africa; CAS 206998, Cape Hangklip, Western Cape Province, South Africa [HQ180092, HQ180065, HQ180038, HQ 180119]
A. namaquensis: PEM R16753, Farm Ratelkraal near Springbok, Northern Cape Province, South Africa (29°33’50” S, 18° 07’02” E) [HQ180087, HQ180060, HQ180033, HQ 180114]
A. orientalis: No number, vic Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa [HQ180093, HQ180066, HQ180039, HQ 180120]
A. occidentalis: CAS 209634, Matopas National Park, Pumongwe Cave, Zimbabwe (20°32'49" S, 28°30'41" E) [HQ180088, HQ180061, HQ180034, HQ 180115]
A. percivali: TM 85192, Dodoma, Tanzania, [AY683695, DQ249271, AY683749, no Rag1 sequence data]
A. plumbeus: No number, Farm Margate, Phalaborwa District, Limpopo Province, South Africa [HQ180094, HQ180067, HQ180040, HQ 180121]; No number, captive specimen [HQ180095, HQ180068, HQ180041, HQ 180122]
A. poecilus: JM 1043, Port Edward, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa [HQ180096, HQ180069, HQ180042, HQ 180123]
A. richardi: MBUR01013, MBUR0104, Limpopo Province, South Africa (22°32’26”S, 30°15’04”E) [HQ180081, HQ180054, HQ180027, HQ 180108]*
A. rieppeli: NMB R 8140 [HQ 180100, HQ180073, HQ180046, HQ 180127], NMB R 8141 [HQ 180136, HQ 180133, HQ 180130, HQ 180139], Haenertzburg, Limpopo Province, South Africa (23°50'58" S, 29°54'04" E)
A. tristis: NMB field numbers F 36, 37, Northern Cape Province, South Africa (exact locality unknown) [HQ180085, HQ180058, HQ180031, HQ 180112]*
description: Published as part of Lamb, Trip, Biswas, Sayantan & Bauer, Aaron M., 2010, A phylogenetic reassessment of African fossorial skinks in the subfamily Acontinae (Squamata: Scincidae): evidence for parallelism and polyphyly, pp. 33-46 in Zootaxa 2657 on page 43, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.198943