Typhlacontias
Genus of lizards
Typhlacontias | |
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Typhlacontias rohani | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Family: | Scincidae |
Subfamily: | Scincinae |
Genus: | Typhlacontias Bocage, 1873 |
Type species | |
Typhlacontias punctatissimus Bocage, 1873 |
Typhlacontias is a genus of legless, burrowing skinks in the family Scincidae, a genus endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa.[1][2] Its sister group is the clade consisting of the genera Feylinia and Melanoseps.[1]
Species
Seven species are recognized as being valid:[2]
- Typhlacontias brevipes V. FitzSimons, 1938 – FitzSimon's burrowing skink, short blind dart skink
- Typhlacontias gracilis Roux, 1907 – Roux's blind dart skink
- Typhlacontias johnsonii Andersson, 1916 – Johnson's western burrowing skink
- Typhlacontias kataviensis Broadley, 2006 – Katavi blind dart skink
- Typhlacontias punctatissimus Bocage, 1873 – dotted blind dart skink, speckled western burrowing skink
- Typhlacontias rohani Angel, 1923 – Rohan's blind dart skink
- Typhlacontias rudebecki Haacke, 1997 – Rudebeck's western burrowing skink
References
- ^ a b Whiting, Alison S.; Aaron M. Bauer [in French]; Jack W. Sites Jr. (2003). "Phylogenetic relationships and limb loss in sub-Saharan African scincine lizards (Squamata: Scincidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 29 (3): 582–598. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00142-8. PMID 14615195.
- ^ a b Typhlacontias at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 24 September 2016.
Further reading
- Bocage JVB ("1872" [1873]). "Mélanges erpétologiques. II. Sur quelques Reptiles et Batraciens nouveaux, rares ou peu connus d'Afrique occidentale ". Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas Physicas e Naturaes, Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa 4: 209–227. (Typhlacontias, new genus, p. 213). (in French).
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