Paracontias is a genus of skinks, lizards in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to Madagascar.
Paracontias is a genus of skinks, lizards in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to Madagascar.
==Taxonomy and systematics== Paracontias is usually placed in the subfamily Scincinae, which seems to be paraphyletic however. Probably quite close to Amphiglossus and possibly Androngo trivittatus, it belongs to a major clade which does not seem to include the type genus Scincus. Thus, it will probably be eventually assigned to a new, yet-to-be-named subfamily. (Austin & Arnold 2006)
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).