Biology:Typhlacontias

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Short description: Genus of lizards

Typhlacontias
Typhlacontias rohani.jpg
Typhlacontias rohani
Scientific classification e
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]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Whiting, Alison S.; Aaron M. Bauer; 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. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 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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