Meyer's blind legless skink

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

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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

^ Typhlosaurus meyeri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 7 January 2020.
^ 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).

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[RDB-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).

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