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| genus = Acontias
| species = gracilicauda
| authority = (Essex, 1925)[1]
| range_map = Acontias gracilicauda distribution (colored).png
}}Acontias gracilicauda, the slendertail lance skink, is a species of skink found in the Republic of South Africa. Specifically, its range is Little Namaqualand, East Cape and South Transvaal. It has no limbs, like most members of the subfamily Acontinae.[1]References1. ^1 JCVI.org
Further reading- Bauer, A.M., and Branch, W.R. (2003). The herpetofauna of the Richtersveld National Park, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. Herpetological Natural History 8:111-160 [2001]
- {{cite journal | last1 = Daniels | first1 = S. R. | last2 = Hendricks | first2 = M. G. J. | last3 = Heideman | first3 = N. J. L. | last4 = Wilson | first4 = B. A. | year = 1999 | title = Geographic Distribution. Acontias gracilicauda gracilicauda Essex 1925: Thin-tailed legless skink | url = | journal = African Herp News | volume = 29 | issue = | page = 43 }}
- {{cite journal | doi = 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.011 | last1 = Daniels | first1 = S.R. | last2 = Heideman | first2 = Neil J.L. | last3 = Hendricks | first3 = Martin G.J. | last4 = Mokone | first4 = Mphalile E. | last5 = Crandall | first5 = Keith A. | year = 2005 | title = Unraveling evolutionary lineages in the limbless fossorial skink genus Acontias (Sauria: Scincidae): are subspecies equivalent systematic units? | url = | journal = Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume = 34 | issue = 3| pages = 645–654 | pmid = 15683935 }}
- Essex, R. 1925. Descriptions of two new species of the genus Acontias and notes on some other lizards found in the Cape Province. Rec. Albany Mus. 3: 332-342.
- {{cite journal | doi = 10.3377/1562-7020-43.2.192 | last1 = Heideman | first1 = N.J.L. | year = 2008 | title = Sexual dimorphism in the African legless skink subfamily Acontiinae (Reptilia: Scincidae) | url = | journal = African Zoology | volume = 43 | issue = 2| pages = 192–201 | last2 = Daniels | first2 = S. R. | last3 = Mashinini | first3 = P. L. | last4 = Mokone | first4 = M. E. | last5 = Thibedi | first5 = M. L. | last6 = Hendricks | first6 = M. G. J. | last7 = Wilson | first7 = B. A. | last8 = Douglas | first8 = R. M. |display-authors=etal}}
- {{cite journal | doi = 10.1080/00359193809519768 | last1 = Hewitt | first1 = J. | year = 1938 | title = Description of new forms of the genus Acontias | url = | journal = Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa | volume = 26 | issue = | pages = 39–48 }}
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