A TAXONOMIC REVIEW OF THE GENUS MICROACONTIAS (SCINCIDAE: ACONTIINAE) BASED ON DNA AND MORPHOLOGICAL DATA

The recent taxonomic review of the legless, fossorial skink genus Acontias by Daniels et al. (2006), using DNA sequence data, led to the erecting of the new genus Microacontias for all the small-bodied taxa. These are Microacontias lineatus lineatus, Microacontias lineatus tristis, Microacontias lin...

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Main Author: Janse van Vuuren, Lucas Cornelius
Other Authors: Prof SR Daniels
Format: Others
Language:en-uk
Published: University of the Free State 2010
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Online Access:http://etd.uovs.ac.za//theses/available/etd-11192010-153706/restricted/