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Mozambique Dwarf Burrowing Skink

Scelotes mossambicus (Peters 1882)

Scientific Names

Preferred Names

Scelotes mossambicus (Peters 1882)
Species recognized by EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from The Reptile Database in Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life
Herpetosaura arenicola Bocage 1882
Species recognized by GBIF national node type records Germany
Herpetosaura arenicola Peters 1854
Species recognized by GBIF classification and Mozambique Species List
Herpetosaura inornata var. mossambica Peters 1882
Recognized by GBIF national node type records Germany
Scelotes arenicolus Peters 1854
Recognized by ReptileDB
Scelotes mossambicus
Species recognized by Eswatini Species List, wikipedia VI, South Africa Species List, wikipedia EU, Indian Ocean Species List, Hone et al 2013, and Wildfinder (WWF)
Scelotes mossambicus (Peters 1882)
Species recognized by EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1, EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1, GBIF classification, and Mozambique Species List
Scelotes mossambicus
Species recognized by wikidata_hierarchy tar gz, wikipedia FR, wikipedia EN, Wikidata Common Names, Wikimedia Commons, Global Biotic Interactions, and iNaturalist data coverage
Scelotes mossambicus (Peters 1882)
Species recognized by IUCN, Catalogue of Life 7 February 2023, iNaturalist, Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Hierarchy, and GBIF data coverage

Alternative Names

Herpetosaura arenicola Bocage 1882
Not accepted according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from The Reptile Database in Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life
Herpetosaura brevipes Witte & Laurent 1943
Not accepted according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from The Reptile Database in Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life
Herpetosaura inornata Witte & Laurent 1943
Not accepted according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from The Reptile Database in Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life
Herpetosaura inornata var. mossambica Peters 1882
Not accepted according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from The Reptile Database in Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life
Scelotes arenicola Bocage 1896
Not accepted according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from The Reptile Database in Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life
Scelotes brevipes Hewitt 1925
Not accepted according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from The Reptile Database in Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life
Scelotes inornatus inornatus Visser 1984
Not accepted according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from The Reptile Database in Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life
Scelotes inornatus mossambicus Bruton & Haacke 1980
Not accepted according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from The Reptile Database in Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life
Herpetosaura arenicola
Synonym according to ReptileDB
Herpetosaura arenicola Bocage 1882
Synonym according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1 and EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1
Herpetosaura arenicola Peters 1854
Synonym according to ReptileDB
Herpetosaura brevipes Witte & Laurent 1943
Synonym according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1 and EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1
Herpetosaura inornata Witte & Laurent 1943
Synonym according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1 and EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1
Herpetosaura inornata var. mossambica Peters 1882
Synonym according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1 and EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1
Scelotes arenicola arenicola
Synonym according to ReptileDB
Scelotes inornatus inornatus Visser 1984
Synonym according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1 and EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1
Scelotes arenicola
Synonym according to ReptileDB and ReptileDB
Scelotes arenicola Bocage 1896
Synonym according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1 and EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1
Scelotes arenicolor
Synonym according to ReptileDB
Scelotes arenicolus
Synonym according to ReptileDB
Scelotes brevipes Hewitt 1925
Synonym according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1 and EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1
Scelotes inornatus mossambicus Bruton & Haacke 1980
Synonym according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1 and EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1
Herpetosaura arenicola Bocage 1882
Ambiguous synonym according to Catalogue of Life 7 February 2023
Herpetosaura inornata var. mossambica Peters 1882
Synonym according to Catalogue of Life 7 February 2023
Scelotes arenicola Bocage 1896
Synonym according to Catalogue of Life 7 February 2023
Scelotes brevipes Hewitt 1925
Synonym according to Catalogue of Life 7 February 2023
Scelotes guentheri Ohdner 1908
Ambiguous synonym according to Catalogue of Life 7 February 2023
Scelotes inornatus inornatus Visser 1984
Ambiguous synonym according to Catalogue of Life 7 February 2023

Common Names

English

Mozambique Dwarf Burrowing Skink preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Navajo; Navaho

Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyahdę́ę́ʼ naʼashǫ́ʼiilkǫǫhí jáádchʼį́dí dinilzhinígíí preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Curated hierarchies for Scelotes mossambicus (Peters 1882)

EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022

Life
Cellular Organisms
Eukaryota
Opisthokonta
Metazoa
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Osteichthyes
Sarcopterygii
Tetrapoda
Amniota
Reptilia
Diapsida
Lepidosauromorpha
Lepidosauria
Squamata
Scincoidea
Scincidae
Scelotes Fitzinger 1826
Scelotes mossambicus (Peters 1882) (this page)
Scelotes anguineus (Boulenger 1887)
Scelotes arenicolus (Peters 1854)
Scelotes bidigittatus Fitzsimons 1930
Scelotes bipes (Linnaeus 1766)
Scelotes bourquini Broadley 1994
Scelotes caffer (Peters 1861)
Scelotes capensis (Smith 1849)
Scelotes duttoni Broadley 1990
Scelotes fitzsimonsi Broadley 1994
Scelotes gronovii (Daudin 1802)
Scelotes guentheri Boulenger 1887
Scelotes inornatus (Smith 1849)
Scelotes insularis Broadley 1990
Scelotes kasneri Fitzsimons 1939
Scelotes limpopoensis Fitzsimons 1930
Scelotes mirus (Roux 1907)
Scelotes montispectus Bauer, Whiting & Sadlier 2003
Scelotes poensis Bocage 1895
Scelotes sexlineatus (Harlan 1824)
Scelotes uluguruensis Barbour & Loveridge 1928
Scelotes vestigifer Broadley 1994

Catalogue of Life 7 February 2023

Biota
Animalia
Chordata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Osteichthyes
Sarcopterygii
Tetrapoda
Amniota
Squamata
Scincomorpha
Scincidae
Scincinae
Scelotes
Scelotes mossambicus (Peters 1882) (this page)
Scelotes anguineus (Boulenger 1887)
Scelotes arenicolus (Peters 1854)
Scelotes bidigittatus Fitzsimons 1930
Scelotes bipes (Linnaeus 1766)
Scelotes caffer (Peters 1861)
Scelotes capensis (Smith 1849)
Scelotes duttoni Broadley 1990
Scelotes farquharsoni Raw 2020
Scelotes fitzsimonsi Broadley 1994
Scelotes gronovii (Daudin 1802)
Scelotes guentheri Boulenger 1887
Scelotes inornatus (Smith 1849)
Scelotes insularis Broadley 1990
Scelotes kasneri Fitzsimons 1939
Scelotes limpopoensis Fitzsimons 1930
Scelotes mirus (Roux 1907)
Scelotes montispectus Bauer, Whiting & Sadlier 2003
Scelotes poensis Bocage 1895
Scelotes sexlineatus (Harlan 1824)
Scelotes uluguruensis Barbour & Loveridge 1928
Scelotes vestigifer Broadley 1994

EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1

Life
Cellular Organisms
Eukaryota
Opisthokonta
Metazoa
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Osteichthyes
Sarcopterygii
Tetrapoda
Amniota
Reptilia
Diapsida
Lepidosauromorpha
Lepidosauria
Squamata
Scincoidea
Scincidae
Scelotes
Scelotes mossambicus (Peters 1882) (this page)
Scelotes anguineus (Boulenger 1887)
Scelotes bidigittatus Fitzsimons 1930
Scelotes bipes (Linnaeus 1766)
Scelotes bourquini Broadley 1994
Scelotes caffer (Peters 1861)
Scelotes capensis (Smith 1849)
Scelotes duttoni Broadley 1990
Scelotes fitzsimonsi Broadley 1994
Scelotes gronovii (Daudin 1802)
Scelotes guentheri Boulenger 1887
Scelotes inornatus (Smith 1849)
Scelotes insularis Broadley 1990
Scelotes kasneri Fitzsimons 1939
Scelotes limpopoensis Fitzsimons 1930
Scelotes mirus (Roux 1907)
Scelotes montispectus Bauer, Whiting & Sadlier 2003
Scelotes poensis Bocage 1895
Scelotes schebeni Sternfeld 1910
Scelotes sexlineatus (Harlan 1824)
Scelotes uluguruensis Barbour & Loveridge 1928
Scelotes vestigifer Broadley 1994

GBIF classification

Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Scincidae
Scelotes Fitzinger 1826
Scelotes mossambicus (Peters 1882) (this page)
Scelotes anguineus (Boulenger 1887)
Scelotes anguinus
Scelotes ardovini
Scelotes bidigittatus Fitzsimons 1930
Scelotes bipes (Linnaeus 1766)
Scelotes bourquini Broadley 1994
Scelotes caffer (Peters 1861)
Scelotes capensis (Smith 1849)
Scelotes duttoni Broadley 1990
Scelotes fitzsimonsi Broadley 1994
Scelotes gronovii (Daudin 1802)
Scelotes guentheri Boulenger 1887
Scelotes inornatus (Smith 1849)
Scelotes insularis Broadley 1990
Scelotes kasneri Fitzsimons 1939
Scelotes limpopoensis Fitzsimons 1930
Scelotes mirus (Roux 1907)
Scelotes montispectus Bauer, Whiting & Sadlier 2003
Scelotes poensis Bocage 1895
Scelotes schebeni Sternfeld 1910
Scelotes sexlineatus (Harlan 1824)
Scelotes uluguruensis Barbour & Loveridge 1928
Scelotes vestigifer Broadley 1994

GBIF classification

Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Scincidae
Herpetosaura Peters 1854
Herpetosaura arenicola Peters 1854 (this page)

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Hierarchy

Animalia
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Tetrapoda
Reptilia Laurenti 1768
Squamata Oppel 1811
Autarchoglossa
Scincidae Oppel 1811
Scincinae Oppel 1811
Scelotes Fitzinger 1826
Scelotes mossambicus (Peters 1882) (this page)
Scelotes anguineus (Boulenger 1887)
Scelotes arenicolus (Peters 1854)
Scelotes bidigittatus Fitzsimons 1930
Scelotes bipes (Linnaeus 1766)
Scelotes caffer (Peters 1861)
Scelotes capensis (Smith 1849)
Scelotes duttoni Broadley 1990
Scelotes farquharsoni Raw 2020
Scelotes fitzsimonsi Broadley 1994
Scelotes gronovii (Daudin 1802)
Scelotes guentheri Boulenger 1887
Scelotes inornatus (Smith 1849)
Scelotes insularis Broadley 1990
Scelotes kasneri Fitzsimons 1939
Scelotes limpopoensis Fitzsimons 1930
Scelotes mirus (Roux 1907)
Scelotes montispectus Bauer, Whiting & Sadlier 2003
Scelotes poensis Bocage 1895
Scelotes sexlineatus (Harlan 1824)
Scelotes uluguruensis Barbour & Loveridge 1928
Scelotes vestigifer Broadley 1994

IUCN

Animalia
Chordata
Reptilia
Squamata
Scincidae
Scelotes mossambicus (Peters 1882) (this page)
Acontias parietalis (Broadley 1990)
Asymblepharus ladacensis (Günther 1864)
Asymblepharus mahabharatus Eremchenko, Shah & Panfilov 1998
Asymblepharus nepalensis Eremchenko & Helfenberger 1998
Asymblepharus sikimmensis (Blyth 1854)
Asymblepharus tragbulensis (Alcock 1898)
Brachymeles apus Hikida 1982
Carlia leucotaenia (Bleeker 1860)
Carlia nigrauris Zug 2010
Carlia peronii (Duméril & Bibron 1839)
Carlia sukur Zug & Kaiser 2014
Cryptoblepharus ahli Mertens 1928
Cryptoblepharus aldabrae (Sternfeld 1918)
Cryptoblepharus balinensis Barbour 1911
Cryptoblepharus bitaeniatus (Boettger 1913)
Cryptoblepharus burdeni Dunn 1927
Cryptoblepharus caudatus (Sternfeld 1918)
Cryptoblepharus cognatus (Boettger 1881)
Cryptoblepharus cursor Barbour 1911
Cryptoblepharus keiensis (Roux 1910)
Cryptoblepharus quinquetaeniatus (Günther 1874)
Cryptoblepharus schlegelianus Mertens 1928
Cryptoblepharus voeltzkowi (Sternfeld 1918)
Dasia johnsinghi Harikrishnan, Vasudevan, De Silva, Deepak, Kar, Naniwadekar, Lalremruata, Prasoona & Aggarwal 2012
Eremiascincus antoniorum (Smith 1927)
Eremiascincus butlerorum (Aplin, How & Boeadi 1993)
Eremiascincus emigrans (Lidth de Jeude 1895)
Eutropis longicaudata (Hallowell 1857)
Eutropis macrophthalma (Mausfeld & Böhme 2002)
Eutropis quadratilobus (Bauer & Günther 1992)
Isopachys gyldenstolpei Lönnberg 1916
Jarujinia bipedalis Chan-Ard, Makchai & Cota 2011
Lamprolepis leucosticta (Müller 1923)
Leiolopisma mauritiana (Günther 1877)
Leiolopisma telfairii (Desjardin 1831)
Lerista allanae (Longmann 1937)
Lerista vittata Greer, McDonald & Lawrie 1983
Lipinia inconspicua (Müller 1894)
Panaspis duruarum (Monard 1949)
Panaspis seydeli (De Witte 1933)
Plestiodon chinensis (Gray 1838)
Plestiodon coreensis (Doi & Kamita 1937)
Plestiodon liui (Hikida & Zhao 1989)
Plestiodon popei (Hikida 1989)
Plestiodon tamdaoensis (Bourret 1937)
Plestiodon tunganus (Stejneger 1924)
Scincella barbouri (Stejneger 1925)
Scincella capitanea Ouboter 1986
Scincella formosensis (Van Denburgh 1912)
Scincella huanrenensis Zhao & Huang 1982
Scincella modesta (Günther 1864)
Scincella ochracea (Bourret 1937)
Scincella potanini (Günther 1896)
Scincella przewalskii (Bedriaga 1912)
Scincella reevesii (Gray 1838)
Scincella rufocaudata (Darevsky & Nguyen Van Sang 1983)
Scincella schmidti (Barbour 1927)
Scincella tsinlingensis (Hu & Zhao 1966)
Sphenomorphus capitolythos Shea & Michels 2009
Sphenomorphus celebensis (Müeller 1894)
Sphenomorphus consobrinus (Peters & Doria 1878)
Sphenomorphus courcyanus (Annandale 1912)
Sphenomorphus incognitus (Thompson 1912)
Sphenomorphus maculatus (Blyth 1853)
Sphenomorphus malayanus (Doria 1888)
Sphenomorphus necopinatus (Brongersma 1942)
Sphenomorphus nigrolabris (Günther 1873)
Sphenomorphus puncticentralis Iskandar 1994
Sphenomorphus sabanus Inger 1958
Sphenomorphus sananus (Kopstein 1926)
Sphenomorphus sanctus (Duméril & Bibron 1839)
Sphenomorphus sarasinorum (Boulenger 1897)
Sphenomorphus schlegeli (Dunn 1927)
Sphenomorphus striolatus (Weber 1890)
Sphenomorphus tonkinensis Nguyen, Schmitz, Nguyen, Orlov, Böhme & Ziegler 2011
Sphenomorphus vanheurni (Brongersma 1942)
Sphenomorphus zimmeri (Ahl 1933)
Trachylepis acutilabris (Peters 1862)
Trachylepis adamastor Ceriaco 2015
Trachylepis capensis (Gray 1830)
Trachylepis depressa (Peters 1854)
Trachylepis occidentalis (Peters 1867)
Trachylepis punctulata (Bocage 1872)
Trachylepis sparsa (Mertens 1954)
Trachylepis spilogaster (Peters 1882)
Trachylepis sulcata (Peters 1867)
Trachylepis variegata (Peters 1870)
Tropidophorus assamensis Annandale 1912
Tropidophorus baconi Hikida, Riyanto & Ota 2003
Tropidophorus berdmorei (Blyth 1853)
Tropidophorus guangxiensis Wen 1992
Tropidophorus hainanus Smith 1923
Tropidophorus micropus Lidth de Jeude 1905
Tropidophorus perplexus Barbour 1921
Tropidophorus sinicus Boettger 1886
Tytthoscincus aesculeticola (Inger, Lian, Lakin & Yambun 2001)
Tytthoscincus hallieri (Lidth de Jeude 1905)
Tytthoscincus parvus (Boulenger 1897)
Tytthoscincus temmincki (Duméril & Bibron 1839)
Tytthoscincus textus (Müller 1894)
917 additional siblings truncated for brevity.
See the resource file for a full list.

wikidata_hierarchy tar gz

Biota
Eukaryota
Unikonta
Opisthokonta
Holozoa
Filozoa
Apoikozoa
Animalia
Eumetazoa
Bilateria
Deuterostomia
Chordata
Olfactores
Craniata
Vertebrata
Gnathostomata
Osteichthyes
Sarcopterygii
Dipnotetrapodomorpha
Tetrapodomorpha
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Amniota
Sauropsida
Reptilia
Eureptilia
Romeriida
Diapsida
Neodiapsida
Sauria
Lepidosauromorpha
Lepidosauria
Squamata
Scincogekkonomorpha
Scleroglossa
Scincomorpha
Scincidae
Scincinae
Scelotes
Scelotes mossambicus (this page)
Scelotes anguineus
Scelotes arenicolus
Scelotes bicolor
Scelotes bidigittatus
Scelotes bipes
Scelotes bourquini
Scelotes caffer
Scelotes capensis
Scelotes duttoni
Scelotes farquharsoni
Scelotes fitzsimonsi
Scelotes gronovii
Scelotes inornatus
Scelotes insularis
Scelotes kasneri
Scelotes limpopoensis
Scelotes mirus
Scelotes montispectus
Scelotes poensis
Scelotes schebeni
Scelotes sexlineatus
Scelotes uluguruensis
Scelotes vestigifer
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