Leptosiaphos is a genus of skinks endemic to West Africa.
| Leptosiaphos | |
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| Leptosiaphos kilimensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Subfamily: | Eugongylinae |
| Genus: | Leptosiaphos K.P. Schmidt, 1943[1] |
Species
editThe following 18 species are recognized:[2]
- Leptosiaphos aloysiisabaudiae (Peracca, 1907) – Uganda five-toed skink
- Leptosiaphos amieti (Perret, 1973) – Cameroon five-toed skink
- Leptosiaphos blochmanni (Tornier, 1903) – Zaire three-toed skink
- Leptosiaphos dewittei (Loveridge, 1934) – De Witte's leaf-litter skink, De Witte's five-toed skink
- Leptosiaphos dungeri J.-F. Trape, 2012
- Leptosiaphos fuhni (Perret, 1973) – Fuhn's five-toed skink
- Leptosiaphos graueri (Sternfeld, 1912) – Rwanda five-toed skink
- Leptosiaphos hackarsi (de Witte, 1941) – Hackars's five-toed skink
- Leptosiaphos hylophilus Laurent, 1982 – Laurenti's five-toed skink
- Leptosiaphos ianthinoxantha (Böhme, 1975) – yellow and violet-bellied mountain skink
- Leptosiaphos kilimensis (Stejneger, 1891) – Kilimanjaro five-toed skink
- Leptosiaphos koutoui Ineich, Schmitz, Chirio & LeBreton, 2004
- Leptosiaphos luberoensis (de Witte, 1933) – Witte's five-toed skink
- Leptosiaphos meleagris (Boulenger, 1907) – Ruwenzori four-toed skink
- Leptosiaphos pauliani (Angel, 1940)
- Leptosiaphos rhodurus Laurent, 1952 – red five-toed skink
- Leptosiaphos rhomboidalis Broadley, 1989 – Udzungwa five-toed skink
- Leptosiaphos vigintiserierum (Sjöstedt, 1897) – African five-toed skink
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Leptosiaphos.
References
edit- ^ "Leptosiaphos ". DahmsTierleben. http://www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/scincidae/eugongylinae.
- ^ Genus Leptosiaphos at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
Further reading
edit- Schmidt KP (1943). "Amphibians and Reptiles from the Sudan". Zoological Series of Field Museum of Natural History 24 (29): 331-338. (Leptosiaphos, new genus, p. 332).