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Acontias kgalagadi (Striped Legless Skink)

Synonyms: Acontias kgalagadi kgalagadi; Typhlosaurus lineatus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  5 grams
Birth Weight [1]  1 grams
Female Weight [1]  5 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Fossorial
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [1]  1
Reproductive Mode [2]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  5 inches (13 cm)

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
♦ 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
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