Panaspis

Panaspis
Panaspis wahlbergii, Wahlberg's snake-eyed skink, Durban, South Africa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Scincidae
Subfamily:	Eugongylinae
Genus:	Panaspis Cope, 1868
Species
16 sp., see text
Synonyms
Afroablepharus

Panaspis is a genus of skinks, commonly called lidless skinks or snake-eyed skinks, endemic to Sub-saharan Africa.

Species

The following 16 species, listed alphabetically by specific name, are recognized as being valid:

• Panaspis africanus (Gray, 1845) – Guinea lidless skink
• Panaspis annobonensis (Fuhn, 1972) – Annobón lidless skink
• Panaspis breviceps (W. Peters, 1873) – Peters's lidless skink
• Panaspis burgeoni (de Witte, 1933)
• Panaspis cabindae (Bocage, 1866) – Cabinda lidless skink
• Panaspis duruarum (Monard, 1949)
• Panaspis helleri (Loveridge, 1932)
• Panaspis maculicollis (Jacobson & Broadley, 2000) – spotted-neck snake-eyed skink
• Panaspis megalurus (Nieden, 1913) – blue-tailed snake-eyed skink
• Panaspis nimbaensis (Angel, 1944) – Ruwenzori lidless skink
• Panaspis seydeli (De Witte, 1933) – Seydel‟s snake-eyed skink
• Panaspis tancredi (Boulenger, 1909)
• Panaspis thomensis Ceriaco, Soares, Marques, Bastos-Silveira, Scheinberg, Harris, Brehm, & Jesus, 2018
• Panaspis togoensis (F. Werner, 1902) – Togo lidless skink
• Panaspis wahlbergi (Smith, 1849) – Wahlberg’s snake-eyed skink, savannah lidless skink
• Panaspis wilsoni (Werner, 1919) – Wilson's snake-eyed skink

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

Further reading

• Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books Publishing. 399 pp. ISBN 0-88359-042-5. (Genus Panaspis, p. 159).
• Cope ED (1868). "Observations on REPTILES of the Old World. Art. II". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20: 316-323. (Panaspis, new genus, pp. 317–318).