Typhlosaurus braini HAACKE, 1964

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Acontiinae (Acontidae), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Haacke's Legless Skink
Synonym	Typhlosaurus braini HAACKE 1964: 5 Typhlosaurus braini — HAACKE 1975 Typhlosaurus braini — LAMB et al. 2010
Distribution	Namibia (central Namib desert from Kuiseb River to Koichab River) Type locality: dunes south of the Kuiseb River at Gobabeb in the central Namib Desert, South West Africa.
Reproduction	ovovivparous
Types	Holotype: DNMNH (= TM) 28472, Transvaal Museum
Diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS: This new lorm seems to be the thinnest of all the known South African species of this genus. It shows a considerable reduction of head scales, which clearly distinguishes it lrom all the other known species. Only a single large head scale is present, lying between the rostral and the parietals. This large scale is referred to as the frontal, although it is probably a fusion of the frontal, prefrontal or frontonasals and interparietal. The first 8-10 scales behind the head scales are much shorter than the rest of the body scales (Haacke 1964: 7). Additional details (1636 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Limb morphology: Limbless.
Etymology	Named after Dr. Charles Kimberlin Brain (b. 1931), a Zimbabwean geologist and paleontologist whose main interests are Australopithecines and the taphonomy of caves (how deposits in caves were created and fossilized). He was Director ofthe Transvaal Museum (1965-1991) but retired in 1996.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Broadley, D.G. 1968. A review of the African genus Typhlosaurus Wiegmann (Sauria: Scincidae). Arnoldia (Rhodesia) 3 (36): 1-20 Haacke, W. D. 1975. Herpetological investigations in the sand sea of the southern Namib. . TRANSVAAL MUSEUM BULLETIN No. 15: 8-10 Haacke, W.D. 1964. Description of two new species of lizards and notes on Fitzsimonsia brevipes (FITZSIMONS) from the central Namib desert. Scientific Papers of the Namib Desert Research Station 25: 1-15 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 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
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://solvinzankl.photoshelter.com/image/I0000OMmH891ST.A Google images

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