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    • Slendertail Lance Skink
    • Thin-tailed Legless Skink
  • Scientific names
    • Acontias gracilicauda

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Description from Wikipedia

Acontias gracilicauda, the Slendertail Lance Skink, is a species of skink found in the Republic of South Africa. Specifically, its range is Little Namaqualand, E. Cape and S. Transvaal. It has no limbs, like most members of the subfamily Acontinae.

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