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Acontias gariepensis (FitzSimon's Legless Skink)

Synonyms: Typhlosaurus gariepensis

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  4 grams
Birth Weight [2]  .33 grams
Female Weight [1]  4 grams
Habitat Substrate [3]  Fossorial
Litter Size [2]  1
Litters / Year [2]  1
Reproductive Mode [3]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  4.724 inches (12 cm)
Male Maturity [2]  1 year 8 months

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Kalahari xeric savanna Botswana, Namibia, South Africa Afrotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Prey / Diet

Psammotermes allocerus[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Acontias jappi (Striped Legless Skink)1

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2{ECOLOGICAL SHIFTS IN SYMPATRY: KALAHARI FOSSORIAL LIZARDS (TYPHLOSAURUS), Raymond B. Huey, Eric R. Pianka, Michael E. Egan, and Larry W. Coons, Ecology (1974) 55: pp. 304-316
♦ 3Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0