Scelotes caffer

{{short description|Species of reptile}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Bauer, A.M. |author2=Conradie, W. |author3=Marais, J. |date=2018 |title=Scelotes caffer |volume=2018 |page=e.T44979054A115670660 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T44979054A115670660.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}

| genus = Scelotes

| species = caffer

| authority = (Peters, 1861)

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Scelotes caffer, the Cape dwarf burrowing skink or Peters's burrowing skink, is a species of lizard which is endemic to South Africa.{{NRDB species|genus=Scelotes |species=caffer|accessdate=20 October 2020}}