Biology:Alfred's blind skink
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Dibamidae |
| Genus: | Dibamus |
| Species: | D. alfredi
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| Binomial name | |
| Dibamus alfredi Taylor, 1962
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Alfred's blind skink (Dibamus alfredi), also known commonly as Alfred's dibamid lizard,[1][2] Alfred's limbless skink,[3] and Taylor's limbless skink,[3] is a species of blind lizard in the family Dibamidae. The species is endemic to Southeast Asia.[1][2]
Related species
Another species of Dibamus once had been referred to as Alfred's blind skink, but is now a separate species, Dibamus dezwaani.[4]
Geographic range
Alfred's blind skink is known with certainty only from Peninsular Thailand. Records from Sabah in Malaysian Borneo represent Dibamus vorisi.[1] The Nias (Indonesia) record represents Dibamus dezwaani.[4]
Habitat
The preferred natural habitats of D. alfredi are monsoonal evergreen forests and mixed dipterocarp forests, where it lives in humus or leaf litter.[1]
Reproduction
Naming
D. alfredi is named after ichthyologist Eric R. Alfred, who was the director of the Raffles Museum in Singapore (1967–1972).[2][3][5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Duengkae, P.; Cota, M.; Sumontha, M.; Trivalarait, P. (2018). "Dibamus alfredi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018: e.T99942416A99942419. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T99942416A99942419.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/99942416/99942419. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Dibamus alfredi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 17 November 2020.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=3ovZoFyLhzkC&pg=PT5. (Dibamus alfredi, p. 5).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Das, Indraneil; Lim, Kelvin K. P. (2005). "New species of Dibamus from Pulau Nias, Indonesia". Journal of Herpetology 39: 113–117. doi:10.1670/0022-1511(2005)039[0113:NSODSD2.0.CO;2]. http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1670%2F0022-1511(2005)039%5B0113%3ANSODSD%5D2.0.CO%3B2. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
- ↑ "Former Directors". Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/history/directors.htm#Eric%20R.%20Alfred.
Further reading
- Taylor EH (1962). "New Oriental Reptiles". University of Kansas Science Bulletin 43 (7): 209–263. (Dibamus alfredi, new species, pp. 246–248, Figure 13).
Wikidata ☰ Q3013374 entry
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