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Taxonomy of the genus Scelotes Biodiversity of the family Scincidae

Bibliography of the genus
Scelotes (Dwarf Burrowing Skinks)

(Reptilia: Sauria: Scincidae)

Note: In order to limit redundancy, relevant literature indexed in the related bibliographies in the left column may not have been included in this page. For a comprehensive search of literature, these bibliographies should therefore also be consulted.


Scelotes in general

Barbour, T.; Loveridge, A. 1928. New skinks of the genus Scelotes from Mozambique and Madagascar. Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club 10: 63-65.

Broadley, D.G. 1994. The genus Scelotes Fitzinger (Reptilia: Scincidae) in Mozambique, Swaziland and Natal, South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 35: 237-259.

Elzen, P. van den; Raynaud, A. 1977. Untersuchungen zur Ökologie südafrikanischer Scinciden der Gattung Scelotes Fitzinger (Sauria, Scincidae). Erste Ergebnisse. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 28(3-4): 384-393.

Leonard, C.J. 1982. Interrelationships of species of Scelotes. (Abstract). Zoological Society of Southern Africa Occasional Bulletin 2: 27.

Renous, S.; Gasc, J.P. 1979. Étude des modalités de réduction des membres chez un squamate serpentiforme: Scelotes, scincidé afro-malagoche. Annales des Sciences Naturelles Zoologie et Biologie Animale 1(2): 99-132.

Witte, G.F. de; Laurent, R.F. 1943. Contribution a la systematique des formes degradees de la famille des Scincidae, apparentee au genre Scelotes Fitzinger. Mem. Mus. Roy. Hist. Nat. Belge (Ser. 2) 26: 1-44.

Scelotes anguinus

Moch, J.G.; Senter, P. 2011. Vestigial structures in the appendicular skeletons of eight African skink species (Squamata, Scincidae). Journal of Zoology (London) 285(4): 274-280.

Scelotes arenicola

Bauer, A.M. 2016. On the taxonomic status of two enigmatic southern African fossorial skinks, Scelotes bicolor and S. schebeni. African Journal of Herpetology 65(1): 33-38.

Moch, J.G.; Senter, P. 2011. Vestigial structures in the appendicular skeletons of eight African skink species (Squamata, Scincidae). Journal of Zoology (London) 285(4): 274-280.

Scelotes bidigittatus

FitzSimons, V. 1930. Descriptions of new South African Reptilia and Batrachia, with Distribution Records of Allied Species in the Transvaal Museum Collection. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 14(1): 20-48.

Scelotes caffer

Peters, W.C.H. 1861. Eine neue Gattung von Eidechsen aus der Familie der Scincoides, Sepomorphus caffer. Monatsberichte der Königlich Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1861(April): 422-423.

Scelotes capensis

Berger-Dell'Mour, H.A.E. 1987. Some new data on the herpetology of South West Africa. Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa 33: 5-8.

Günther, A. 1871. List of the lizards belonging to the family Sepidoe, with notes on some of the species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1871: 240-244.

Scelotes duttoni

Broadley, D.G. 1990. The herpetofaunas of the islands off the coast of south Mocambique. Arnoldia Zimbabwe 9(35): 469-493.

Scelotes fitzsimonsi

Broadley, D.G. 1994. The genus Scelotes Fitzinger (Reptilia: Scincidae) in Mozambique, Swaziland and Natal, South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 35: 237-259.

Scelotes gronovii

Elzen, P. van den; Raynaud, A. 1977. Untersuchungen zur Ökologie südafrikanischer Scinciden der Gattung Scelotes Fitzinger (Sauria, Scincidae). Erste Ergebnisse. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 28(3-4): 384-393.

Heideman, N.J.L.; Mulcahy, D.G.; Sites, J.W.; Hendricks, M.G.J.; Daniels, S.R. 2011. Cryptic diversity and morphological convergence in threatened species of fossorial skinks in the genus Scelotes (Squamata: Scincidiae) from the Western Cape Coast of South Africa: implications for species boundaries, digit reduction and conservation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(3): 823-833.

Mouton, P. le F.N.; Oelofsen, B.W.; Mostert, D.P. 1987. New data on threatened lizard species in the south-western Cape, South Africa. South African Journal of Science 83(1): 48-52.

Raynaud, A.; Elzen, P. van den 1979. Structure histologique, aux stages du développement et chez l'adulte, des membres postérieurs rudimentaires de deux scincidé sud-Africains (Scelotes brevipes et Scelotes gronovii) et leur utilisation pour la locomotion chez Scelotes gronovii. Bulletin de la Societe d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 114(3-4): 360-372.

Withers, P.C. 1981. Physiological correlates of limblessness and fossoriality in scincid lizards. Copeia 1981(1): 197-204.

Scelotes guentheri

Broadley, D.G. 1994. The genus Scelotes Fitzinger (Reptilia: Scincidae) in Mozambique, Swaziland and Natal, South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 35: 237-259.

Raw, L.R.G. 1973. Scelotes guentheri Boulenger rediscovered? Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa 10(1): 11-12.

Scelotes inornatus

Elzen, P. van den; Raynaud, A. 1977. Untersuchungen zur Ökologie südafrikanischer Scinciden der Gattung Scelotes Fitzinger (Sauria, Scincidae). Erste Ergebnisse. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 28(3-4): 384-393.

Gasc, J.P.; Renous, S. 1974. Les rapports anatomiques du membre pelvien vestigial chez les squamates serpentiformes. 2. Scelotes brevipes et Scelotes inornatus (Scincidae, Sauria). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris) 186: 1701-1712.

Scelotes insularis

Broadley, D.G. 1990. The herpetofaunas of the islands off the coast of south Mocambique. Arnoldia Zimbabwe 9(35): 469-493.

Scelotes kasneri

Heideman, N.J.L.; Mulcahy, D.G.; Sites, J.W.; Hendricks, M.G.J.; Daniels, S.R. 2011. Cryptic diversity and morphological convergence in threatened species of fossorial skinks in the genus Scelotes (Squamata: Scincidiae) from the Western Cape Coast of South Africa: implications for species boundaries, digit reduction and conservation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(3): 823-833.

Scelotes limpopoensis

FitzSimons, V. 1930. Descriptions of new South African Reptilia and Batrachia, with Distribution Records of Allied Species in the Transvaal Museum Collection. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 14(1): 20-48.

Jacobsen, N.H.G. 1987. A new subspecies of Scelotes limpopoensis Fitzsimons, 1930 (Sauria: Scincidae), with notes on the distribution on the genus Scelotes in the Transvaal. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 34(17): 371-376.

Scelotes montispectus

Bauer, A.M.; Whiting, A.S.; Sadlier, R.A. 2003. A new species of Scelotes from near Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 54(9-21): 231-237.

Scelotes uluguruensis

Broadley, D.G. 1998. Geographical distribution: Scelotes uluguruensis Barbour & Loveridge, 1928. Uluguru Fossorial Skink. Tanzania. African Herp News 28: 43-44.

Scelotes vestigifer

Broadley, D.G. 1994. The genus Scelotes Fitzinger (Reptilia: Scincidae) in Mozambique, Swaziland and Natal, South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 35: 237-259.