Shorthead Lance Skink

Taxobox
name = Shorthead Lance Skink
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
familia = Scincidae
genus = "Acontias"
species = "A. breviceps"
binomial = "Acontias breviceps"
binomial_authority = Essex, 1925

The Shorthead Lance Skink, "Acontias breviceps", is a species of skink.

These skinks can grow up to 10 cm long, and do not have legs. They are brownish pink, and are difficult to distinguish from earth worms. They eat small insects, and even ants, unlike almost all other lizards. The Shorthead Lance Skink digs deep burrows, and rarely appears above ground. Its habitat is sandy areas of South Africa. Lance skinks do have eyelids, but they are transparent.

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