title: Scelotes limpopoensis
text: # Scelotes limpopoensis
  
  The Limpopo burrowing skink (Scelotes limpopoensis) is a lizard species found in the Limpopo River valley in South Africa.
  
  This species lost the forelimbs entirely and the hind limbs are reduced to only two digits.
  
  ## Taxonomy
  
  There are two sub-species:
  
  * Scelotes limpopoensis albiventris JACOBSEN 1987 - first described in the Langjan Nature Reserve
  * Scelotes limpopoensis limpopoensis FITZSIMONS 1930
  
  Although both sub-species occupy a similar habitat the range of S. l. albiventris is smaller than S. l. limpopoensis and they have not been discovered in sympatry, and may probably be a full species.
  
  