Biology:Meyer's blind legless skink

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Short description: Species of lizard

Meyer's blind legless skink
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Genus: Typhlosaurus
Species:
T. meyeri
Binomial name
Typhlosaurus meyeri
Boettger, 1894

Meyer's blind legless skink or the variable blind legless skink (Typhlosaurus meyeri) is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is found in Namibia and South Africa .[1]

Etymology

The specific names meyeri, is in honor of German ornithologist Adolf Bernhard Meyer.[2]


References

  1. Typhlosaurus meyeri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 7 January 2020.
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN:978-1-4214-0135-5. (Typhlosaurus braini, p. 37; T. meyeri, p. 177).

Wikidata ☰ Q6451797 entry