Panaspis

{{Automatic Taxobox

| image = Afroablepharus wahlbergii1.jpg

| image_caption = Panaspis wahlbergii,
Wahlberg's snake-eyed skink,
Durban, South Africa

| taxon = Panaspis

| authority = Cope, 1868

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 21 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 22 species, listed alphabetically by specific name, are recognized as being valid:[http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/advanced_search?genus=panaspis&submit=Search Panaspis] at The Reptile Database.

Panaspis africana (Gray, 1845) – Guinea lidless skink
Panaspis annettesabinae Colston, Pyron, & Bauer, 2020 – Sabin's snake-eyed skink
Panaspis annobonensis (Fuhn, 1972) – Annobón lidless skink
Panaspis breviceps (W. Peters, 1873) – Peters's lidless skink, short-headed snake-eyed skink
Panaspis burgeoni (de Witte, 1933)
Panaspis cabindae (Bocage, 1866) – Cabinda lidless skink, cabinda snake-eyed skink
Panaspis duruarum (Monard, 1949)
Panaspis ericae
Panaspis helleri (Loveridge, 1932)
Panaspis maculicollis (Jacobsen & Broadley, 2000) – speckle-lipped snake-eyed skink, spotted-neck snake-eyed skink
Panaspis massaiensis (Angel, 1924) – Maasai snake-eyed skink
Panaspis megalurus (Nieden, 1913) – blue-tailed snake-eyed skink, Nieden's dwarf skinkBeolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Panaspis megalurus, p. 190).
Panaspis mocamedensis Ceríaco, Heinicke, Parker, Marques, & Bauer, 2020 – Moçamedes snake-eyed skink
Panaspis namibiana Ceríaco, Branch & Bauer, 2018 – Namibian snake-eyed skink
Panaspis seydeli (de Witte, 1933) – Seydel's snake-eyed skink
Panaspis tancredii (Boulenger, 1909) – Ethiopian snake-eyed skink
Panaspis thomensis Ceríaco, Soares, Marques, Bastos-Silveira, Scheinberg, Harris, Brehm & Jesus, 2018 – São Tomé leaf-litter skink
Panaspis togoensis (F. Werner, 1902) – Togo lidless skink
Panaspis tristaoi (Monard, 1940) – Nimba snake-eyed skink
Panaspis tsavoensis Kilunda, Conradie, Wasonga, Jin, Peng, Murphy, Malonza, & Che, 2019 – Tsavo snake-eyed skink
Panaspis wahlbergii (A. Smith, 1849) – Angolan snake-eyed skink, savannah lidless skink, Wahlberg's snake-eyed skink
Panaspis wilsoni (F. 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.

Panaspis

Species

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