Acontias breviceps

Acontias breviceps, the shorthead lance skink or shortheaded legless skink, is a species of viviparous, legless, fossorial lizards occurring along the southern and eastern sections of the Great [Escarpment, Southern Africa|Great Escarpment] in South Africa. It may grow up to long.
This skink was first collected in 1925 by Robert Essex at Hogsback, [Eastern Cape|Hogsback] in the Amatola Mountains in the Eastern Cape at an elevation of some. A disjunct second population exist in the Transvaal Drakensberg. Essex collected for the Albany Museum of Grahamstown, but a fire in 1941 destroyed most specimens and records.