Percival's Legless Skink (Acontias percivali)

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Percival's Legless Skink (Acontias percivali)

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Life
Animals Kingdom Animalia
Chordates Phylum Chordata
Reptiles Class Reptilia
Lizards and Snakes Order Squamata
Lizards Suborder Sauria
Skinks Family Scincidae
Genus Acontias
Percival's Legless Skink Acontias percivali

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Scientific names
- Acontias percivali
- Acontias percivali occidentalis
- Acontias percivali percivali
Unknown
- Percival's Lance Skink
English
- Percival's Legless Skink
- Percival's Lance Skink
- Teita Limbless skink

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Description from Wikipedia

Acontias percivali, also known as Percival's Legless Lizard, Tanzanian Legless Lizard, and Percival's Lance Skink, is a small, legless (snake-like) species of lizard in the family Scincidae, collectively known as "skinks".

Conservation Summary

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Of least concern (LC) (Source: IUCN Red List)

Source: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/spatial-data. Downloaded March 2011.