Leptosiaphos
Leptosiaphos is a genus of skinks endemic to West Africa.
| Leptosiaphos | |
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| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Chordata | 
| Class: | Reptilia | 
| Order: | Squamata | 
| Family: | Scincidae | 
| Subfamily: | Eugongylinae | 
| Genus: | Leptosiaphos K.P. Schmidt, 1943[1]  | 
Species
    
The 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 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
    
- "Leptosiaphos ". DahmsTierleben. http://www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/scincidae/eugongylinae.
 - Genus Leptosiaphos at The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
 
Further reading
    
- Schmidt KP (1943). "Amphibians and Reptiles from the Sudan". Zool. Series Field Mus. Nat Hist. 24 (29): 331-338. (Leptosiaphos, new genus, p. 332).
 
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