Typhlacontias

Typhlacontias
Typhlacontias rohani
Scientific classification
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]

• Typhlacontias brevipes V. FitzSimons, 1938 – FitzSimon's burrowing skink, short blind dart skink
• Typhlacontias gracilis Roux, 1907 – Roux's blind dart skink
• Typhlacontias johnsonii Andersson, 1916 – Johnson's western burrowing skink
• Typhlacontias kataviensis Broadley, 2006 – Katavi blind dart skink
• Typhlacontias punctatissimus Bocage, 1873 – dotted blind dart skink, speckled western burrowing skink
• Typhlacontias rohani Angel, 1923 – Rohan's blind dart skink
• Typhlacontias rudebecki Haacke, 1997 – Rudebeck's western burrowing skink

References

1. Whiting, Alison S.; Aaron M. Bauer [in French]; 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. 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).