Meyer's blind legless skink
| Meyer's blind legless skink | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Typhlosaurus |
| Species: | T. meyeri
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| Binomial name | |
| Typhlosaurus meyeri Boettger, 1894
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Meyer's blind legless skink (Typhlosaurus meyeri), also known commonly as the variable blind legless skink, is a species of lizard in the subfamily Acontinae of the family Scincidae. The species is native to southern Africa.[1]
Etymology
[edit]The specific names meyeri, is in honor of German ornithologist Adolf Bernhard Meyer.[2]: 177
Geographic range
[edit]T. meyeri is found in Namibia and South Africa.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Typhlosaurus meyeri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 7 January 2020.
- ^ Beolens, B; Watkins, M; Grayson, M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. xiii + 296. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5.
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