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Species

These 24 species are recognized:

  • Acontias albigularis Conradie, Busschau, & Edwards, 2018 – white-throated legless skink
  • Acontias aurantiacus (W. Peters, 1854) – golden blind legless skink
  • Acontias bicolor (Hewitt, 1929)
  • Acontias breviceps Essex, 1925 – shorthead lance skink
  • Acontias cregoi (Boulenger, 1903) – Cregoe's legless skink
  • Acontias fitzsimonsi (Broadley, 1968) – Fitzsimons's legless skink
  • Acontias gariepensis (V. FitzSimons, 1941) – Mier Kalahari legless skink
  • Acontias gracilicauda Essex, 1925 – thin-tailed legless skink, slendertail lance skink
  • Acontias jappi (Broadley, 1968) – Japp’s burrowing skink
  • Acontias kgalagadi (Lamb, Biswas & Bauer, 2010) – Kalahari burrowing skink, Kgalagadi legless skink
  • Acontias lineatus W. Peters, 1879 – striped dwarf legless skink, lined lance skink
  • Acontias meleagris (Linnaeus, 1758) – Cape legless skink, golden sand skink; spotted slow skink; thick-tailed blindworm, erdslang, Linnaeus's lance skink
  • Acontias mukwando Marques, Parrinha, Tiutenko, Lopes-Lima, Bauer & Ceríaco, 2023 – Serra da Neve lance-skink
  • Acontias namaquensis Hewitt, 1938 – Namaqua legless skink, Namaqua lance skink
  • Acontias occidentalis V. FitzSimons, 1941 – western burrowing skink, savanna legless skink
  • Acontias orientalis Hewitt, 1938 – eastern striped blindworm, Eastern Cape legless skink
  • Acontias parietalis (Broadley, 1990) – Maputaland legless skink
  • Acontias percivali Loveridge, 1935 – Percival's lance skink, Teita limbless skink
  • Acontias plumbeus Bianconi, 1849 – giant legless skink, giant lance skink
  • Acontias richardi (Jacobsen, 1987) – Richard’s legless skink
  • Acontias rieppeli (Lamb, Biswas & Bauer, 2010) – Woodbush legless skink
  • Acontias schmitzi Wagner, Broadley & Bauer, 2012
  • Acontias subtaeniatus (Broadley, 1968) – stripe-bellied legless skink
  • Acontias wakkerstroomensis Conradie, Busschau, & Edwards, 2018 – Wakkerstroom legless skink

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates the species was originally described in a genus other than Acontias.

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