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Typhlosaurus vermis BOULENGER, 1887

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Higher TaxaScincidae, Acontiinae (Acontidae), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Boulenger's Legless Skink, Pink Blind Legless Skink
E: Lomi’s Blind Legless Skink [lomiae] 
SynonymTyphlosaurus vermis BOULENGER 1887: 434
Typhlosaurus vermis — LOVERIDGE 1936: 75
Typhlosaurus lomii HAACKE 1986
Typhlosaurus lomii — BAUER et al. 2000
Typhlosaurus vermis — BAUER & BRANCH 2003
Typhlosaurus lomiae — MICHELS & BAUER 2004
Typhlosaurus lomii — DUBOIS 2007 (by implication)
Typhlosaurus vermis — LAMB et al. 2010 
DistributionRepublic of South Africa (Orange River to Spoeg River in Little Namaqualand)

Type locality: Cape of Good Hope

lomiae (invalid): Republic of South Africa (Little Namaqualand); Type locality: “Farm Schulpfontein, 472 Nanlaqualand District, Cape Province [now Northern Cape], South Africa, 30° 05'S, 17°14'E, altitude just below 100 m, about 5 km inland from the coast".  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 61.5.21.73, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, collector unknown.
Holotype: DNMNH (= TM) 56116 [lomiae] 
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CommentLimb morphology: Limbless.

Synonymy: Zhao et al. 2023 synonymized T. lomiae (lomii) with T. vermis.

Etymology (lomiae): named after Miss Lomi Brown (née Wessels), Collection Manager of Lower Vertebrates and Invertebrates at the Transvaal Museum since 1976.

NCBI taxonID: 156907 [lomiae]

RDB speciesID: 19778 [lomiae] 
EtymologyThe specific epithet is derived from the Latin vermis (worm). 
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.
  • Bates, Michael F., Neil J. L. Heideman, Brian A. Wilson, Martin G. J. Hendricks, Nulfa Don and Carlos Moses 1999. Morphological variation and geographical distribution in the South African lizards Typhlosaurus caecus (Cuvier 1817) and Typhlosaurus vermis Boulenger 1887 (Scincidae: Acontinae). African Journal of Herpetology 47 (2): 35-41 [1998] - get paper here
  • 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]
  • Bauer, A.M., Schneider, V., Lamb, T., Moler, P., and Babb, R. 2000. New data on the limbless skink Typhlosaurus lomii (Squamata: Scincidae). African Journal of Herpetology 48: 21-26 [1999] - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G. A. 1887. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) III. Lacertidae, Gerrhosauridae, Scincidae, Anelytropsidae, Dibamidae, Chamaeleontidae. London: 575 pp. - get paper here
  • Broadley, D.G. 1968. A review of the African genus Typhlosaurus Wiegmann (Sauria: Scincidae). Arnoldia (Rhodesia) 3 (36): 1-20
  • Dubois, A. 2007. Genitives of species and subspecies nomina derived from personal names should not be emended. Zootaxa 1550: 49–68 - get paper here
  • Haacke W D 1986. Description of a new species of Typhlosaurus Wiegmann, 1834 (Reptilia: Scincidae) from the west coast of southern Africa, with new records of related species. Annals Transvaal Mus. 34 (9): 227-235 - get paper here
  • Heideman, N.J.L. et al. 2008. Sexual dimorphism in the African legless skink subfamily Acontiinae (Reptilia: Scincidae). African Zoology 43 (2): 192–201 - 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
  • Michels, J.P. & A.M. Bauer 2004. Some corrections to the scientific names of amphibians and reptiles. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 52: 83–94 [2005] [Note: Dubois 2007 rejected most of the changes made in this paper] - get paper here
  • Tolley, K.A., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D.W., Weeber, J., Burger, M. & Alexander, G.J. (eds) 2023. Conservation status of the reptiles of South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho. Suricata 10. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
  • 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
  • Werner,F. 1910. Reptilia et Amphibia. In Schultze, L., Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika. Band IV, Systematik und Tiergeographie Vertebrata B. Denkschr. Med.-Nat. Wiss. GeselI. Jena 16: 279-370 [1910] - get paper here
  • Witte, G.F. de & R. LAURENT 1943. Contribution à la systématique des formes dégradées de la famille des Scincidae apparentées au genre Scelotes Fitzinger. Mém. Mus. r. Hist. nat. Belg. (sér.2) 26: 44 pp. - get paper here
  • Zhao, Z, Goedhals, J, Verdú‐Ricoy, J, Jordaan, A, Heideman, N. 2019. Comparative analysis of the eye anatomy in fossorial and surface‐living skink species (Reptilia: Scincidae), with special reference to the structure of the retina. Acta Zool. 2019; 00: 1– 13 - get paper here
 
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