Acontias meleagris

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| image = Acontias meleagris - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ12600063.tif

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref=Conradie, W. & Bauer, A.M. (2018). Acontias meleagris. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018. {{doi|10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T44974868A115668762.en}}

| genus = Acontias

| species = meleagris

| authority = (Linnaeus, 1758)

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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.{{cite journal |author1=Savel R. Daniels |author2=Neil J. L. Heideman |author3=Martin G. J. Hendricks |author4=Mphalile E. Mokone |author5=Keith A. Crandall|author-link5=Keith A. Crandall |year=2005 |title=Unraveling evolutionary lineages in the limbless fossorial skink genus Acontias (Sauria: Scincidae): are subspecies equivalent systematic units? |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=645–654 |pmid=15683935 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.011}}