Proscelotes

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Subordo: Scincomorpha
Superfamilia: Scincoidea

Familia: Scincidae
Genus: Proscelotes
Species: P. aenea - P. arnoldi - P. eggeli
Name

Proscelotes de Witte, 1943
Vernacular names

Proscelotes is a genus of skinks. The genus is endemic to Africa.[2]
Species

The genus Proscelotes contains the following three species.[2]

Proscelotes aenea (Barbour & Loveridge, 1928) – montane skink
Proscelotes arnoldi (Hewitt, 1932) – Arnold's montane skink
Proscelotes eggeli (Tornier, 1902) – Usambara five-toed skink

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Proscelotes.
References

"Proscelotes ". Dahms Tierleben. www.dahmstierleben.de/systematik/Reptilien/Squamata/Scincomorpha/Scincidae/Scincinae.

"Proscelotes ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

Further reading

Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. ISBN 0-88359-042-5. (Genus Proscelotes, p. 139).
de Witte G-F, Laurent RF (1943). "Contribution à la systématique des formes dégradées de la famille des Scincidae apparentées au genre Scelotes Fitzinger ". Mémoires du Musée royal d'histoire naturelle de Belgique, Series 2, 26: 1-44. (Proscelotes, new genus). (in French).