Proscelotes is a genus of skinks. The genus is endemic to Africa.[2]

Proscelotes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Subfamily: Scincinae
Genus: Proscelotes
de Witte & Laurent, 1943[1]

Species edit

The genus Proscelotes contains the following three species.[2]

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Proscelotes.

References edit

  1. ^ "Proscelotes ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Scincidae/Scincinae.
  2. ^ a b "Proscelotes ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading edit

  • Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. ISBN 0-88359-042-5. (Genus Proscelotes, p. 139).
  • de Witte G-F, Laurent RF (1943). "Contribution à la systématique des formes dégradées de la famille des Scincidae apparentées au genre Scelotes Fitzinger ". Mémoires du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique, Series 2, 26: 1-44. (Proscelotes, new genus). (in French).