Typhlosaurus meyeri BOETTGER, 1894

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Acontiinae (Acontidae), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Meyer's Blind Legless Skink, Variable Blind Legless Skink
Synonym	Typhlosaurus meyeri BOETTGER 1894 Typhlosaurus meyeri — LOVERIDGE 1936: 75 Typhlosaurus plowesi FITZSIMONS 1943 (fide BROADLEY 1968) Typhlosaurus meyeri — HAACKE 1975 Typhlosaurus meyeri — BAUER & BRANCH 2003 Typhlosaurus meyeri — LAMB et al. 2010
Distribution	Namibia (Spencer Bay, south to Orange River and into Richtersveld), Republic of South Africa (Richtersveld) Type locality: Angra Pequena, Southwest Africa.
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Neotype: DNMNH (= TM) 28301 (designated by BROADLEY 1968) from Luderitz (= Angra Pequena). Donated by F. Eberlanz,May 1963. Holotype: DNMNH (= TM) [plowesi]
Diagnosis
Comment	Frank & Ramus (1995) gave “BOETTGER 1903” and “FITZSIMONS 1932” as years of description. Limb morphology: Limbless.
References	Bates, M.F.; Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M.; Burger, M., Marais, J.; Alexander, G.J. & de Villliers, M.S. (eds.) 2014. Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 512 pp. Bauer, A.M., and Branch, W.R. 2003. The herpetofauna of the Richtersveld National Park, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. Herpetological Natural History 8: 111-160 [2001] Boettger, O. 1894. Eine neue Eidechse aus Südwest-Afrika. Abh. Ber. Königl. Zool. Anthrop. Mus. Dresden (7): [no page numbers] - get paper here Broadley, D.G. 1968. A review of the African genus Typhlosaurus Wiegmann (Sauria: Scincidae). Arnoldia (Rhodesia) 3 (36): 1-20 FitzSimons, V.F. 1943. The lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoir No.1 (Pretoria), 528 pp. Haacke, W. D. 1975. Herpetological investigations in the sand sea of the southern Namib. . TRANSVAAL MUSEUM BULLETIN No. 15: 8-10 Herrmann, H.-W.; W.R. Branch 2013. Fifty years of herpetological research in the Namib Desert and Namibia with an updated and annotated species checklist. Journal of Arid Environments 93: 94–115 - get paper here Lamb, T.; Biswas, S. & Bauer, A.M. 2010. A phylogenetic reassessment of African fossorial skinks in the subfamily Acontinae (Squamata: Scincidae): evidence for parallelism and polyphyly. Zootaxa 2657: 33–46 - get paper here Loveridge, A. 1936. African reptiles and amphibians in the Field Museum of Natural History. Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Chicago, 22 (1): 1-122 - get paper here Wagner, Philipp; Donald G. Broadley, and Aaron M. Bauer 2012. A New Acontine Skink from Zambia (Scincidae: Acontias Cuvier, 1817). Journal of Herpetology 46 (4): 494-502. - get paper here
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