Melanoseps

Melanoseps is a genus of lizards, known commonly as limbless skinks, in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa.

Species

The following eight species are recognized as being valid.

• Melanoseps ater – black limbless skink.
• Melanoseps emmrichi – Uluguru limbless skink.
• Melanoseps longicauda – Pangani black limbless skink, longtail limbless skink
• Melanoseps loveridgei – Loveridge's limbless skink
• Melanoseps occidentalis – western limbless skink
• Melanoseps pygmaeus – pygmy limbless skink
• Melanoseps rondoensis – Rondo limbless skink
• Melanoseps uzungwensis – Udzungwa limbless skink

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Melanoseps.

References

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... Scincidæ .... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I–XL. (Melanoseps, new genus, p. 422).