Scelotes arenicola, the Zululand dwarf burrowing skink, is a species of lizard which is found in South Africa, Mozambique, and Eswatini.[2] Note: the correct species name is arenicola, a noun in apposition, meaning a sand dweller, and does not change according to the gender of the genus name [3]
| Scelotes arenicola | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Scelotes |
| Species: | S. arenicola
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| Binomial name | |
| Scelotes arenicola (Peters, 1854)
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References
edit- ^ Pietersen, D., Verburgt, L., Bauer, A.M., Conradie, W. & Farooq, H. 2020. Scelotes arenicolus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T44979015A147704980. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T44979015A147704980.en. Downloaded on 06 September 2020.
- ^ Scelotes arenicola at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 October 2020.
- ^ Bauer AM. 2016. On the taxonomic status of two enigmatic southern African fossorial skinks, Scelotes bicolor and S. schebeni. African Journal of Herpetology. 65: 33-38. DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2016.1138149