Critically Endangered
Smith's Dwarf Burrowing Skink
Scelotes inornatus
Smith's Dwarf Burrowing Skink is a skink in the family Scincidae — Scelotes inornatus, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to South Africa.
The skink
Skinks are smooth-scaled lizards, often with reduced limbs in burrowing forms. Most eat insects and other small invertebrates.
Range and habitat
Smith's Dwarf Burrowing Skink, the Durban dwarf burrowing skink or legless burrowing skink, is a lizard that is found in South Africa and Mozambique.
GBIF currently lists 44 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
Most skinks forage in leaf litter or under cover. Burrowing species slip through sand or soil more than they climb.
In crisis
Smith's Dwarf Burrowing Skink is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Scelotes inornatus — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q3475252 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
