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  Acontias percivali - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Acontias percivali, also known as Percival's legless lizard, Tanzanian legless lizard, and the Lance Skink is a small, legless species of skink from Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, Angola, and Tanzania.
Acontias percivali tasmani may be a proven subspecies of Acontias meleagris as seen after recent DNA sequence test.
[http://inbio.byu.edu/faculty/kac/crandall_lab/docsdata/pdf_files/2005/Daniels2005.pdf Unraveling evolutionary lineages in the limbless fossorial skink genus Acontias
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acontias_percivali   (266 words)

  
 acontias   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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 Acontias - Synonyms from Thesaurus.com
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 Partitioned Bayesian analyses and phylogeny of skinks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
We reject the hypothesis that the nearly limbless dibamids are derived from within the Scincidae, but cannot reject the hypothesis that they represent the sister taxon to skinks.
Amphiglossus, Chalcides, the acontines Acontias and Typhlosaurus, and Scincinae are paraphyletic.
The globally widespread "Eumeces" is polyphyletic and we make necessary taxonomic changes.
socrates.berkeley.edu /~brandley/research/skinks.htm   (307 words)

  
 OEDILF - Word Lookup
It's a skink, so I think it's a fake.
Acontias (uh-KON-tee-us) is the genus of the greater legless skinks, although it's named after the ancient name of the dart snake.
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 Reptiles Clipart ETC
Coral Snake A venomous snake with thick red, yellow, and fl bands.
Dart Snake A book name of the serpent like lizards of the genus Acontias, translating the generic term: so called from the manner in which is darts upon its prey.
Green Snake A common green snake coiled in a small tree.
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 What are snakes?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Most of them are either burrowers or live in grasslands, where legs would just get in the way.
A fascinating example is the Cape Legless Skink (Acontias meleagris): a burrowing skink which is not only long and legless but like snakes, also has no external ears!
Snakes have flexible jaws to swallow large prey.
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