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Acontias jappi (Striped Legless Skink)

Synonyms: Typhlosaurus lineatus jappi

Attributes

Birth Weight [1]  .33 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Fossorial
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [1]  2
Reproductive Mode [2]  Viviparous
Male Maturity [1]  1 year 8 months

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa Afrotropic Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Kalahari xeric savanna Botswana, Namibia, South Africa Afrotropic Deserts and Xeric Shrublands

Prey / Diet

Hodotermes mossambicus[1]
Psammotermes allocerus[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1{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
♦ 2Meiri, 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