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title: "Cape Legless Skink"
description: "Acontias meleagris — Rettili. Acontias meleagris, or the Cape legless skink, is a species of skink found in the southern Cape of South Africa."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/cape-legless-skink
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Cape Legless Skink

> Acontias meleagris — Rettili. Acontias meleagris, or the Cape legless skink, is a species of skink found in the southern Cape of South Africa.

- Scientific name: *Acontias meleagris*
- Category: `reptiles` (Rettili)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 979
- Wikidata: [Q2713691](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2713691)
- iNaturalist taxon: [37301](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/37301)

## Names

- en: Cape Legless Skink
- de: Dunkler Lanzenskink

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (942)

## Summary

Acontias meleagris, or the Cape legless skink, is a species of skink found in the southern Cape of South Africa. It has no limbs, like most members of the subfamily Acontinae.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acontias_meleagris

## Photo

![Cape Legless Skink](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/cape-legless-skink/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jody Barends · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/240748231

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/cape-legless-skink?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).