Typhlosaurus

Typhlosaurus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Sauria
Infraorder: Scincomorpha
Family: Scincidae
Subfamily: Acontinae
Genus: Typhlosaurus
Wiegmann, 1834

Typhlosaurus is a genus of African lizards, one of a number of genera of limbless lizards in the skink family (Scincidae). This group was recently revised with most species formerly attributed to Typhlosaurus now placed in Acontias.[1] The current definition of Typhlosaurus includes five attenuate body legless lizards from southwestern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Angola). This is the sister genus to Acontias, which together form the well supported Afrotropical subfamily Acontinae.[1]

Species

Five species are recognized.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Lamb, Trip; Sayantan Biswas & Aaron M. Bauer. (2010). "A phylogenetic reassessment of African fossorial skinks in the subfamily Acontinae (Squamata: Scincidae): evidence for parallelism and polyphyly". Zootaxa 2657: 33–46. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)
  2. "Typhlosaurus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.

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