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    Species Accepted

    Typhlacontias brevipes Fitzsimons, 1938

    Short Blind Dart Skink

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      3 results
      Kortbenet Graveskink Danish
      Short Blind Dart Skink English
      Коротконогий слепосцинк Russian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      11 results
      Schleicher, & Alfred. (2020). Reptiles of Namibia. Kuiseb Publishers, Windhoek, Namibia, 271 Pp.
      Haacke W, D. (1997). Systematics and biogeography of the southern African scincine genus Typhlacontias (Reptilia: Scincidae). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 47 (1-2): 139- 163.
      Greer, Allen E. (1970). The systematics and evolution of the Subsaharan Africa, Seychelles, and Mauritius Scincine Scincid lizards. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 140 (1): 1-24.
      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.
      Whiting, A.S.; Aaron M. Bauer & 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.
      Schleicher, & Alfred. (2015). Reptilien Namibias. Namibia Scientific Society, 276 Pp.
      Welch, K. R. G. (1982). Herpetology of Africa; a checklist and bibliography of the orders Amphisbaenia, Sauria, and Serpentes. Robert E. Krieger Pub. Co., Malabar, FL 293 Pp.
      Fitzsimons, V. F. M. (1938). Transvaal Museum Expedition to South-West Africa and Little Namaqualand, May to August 1937 - Reptiles and Amphibians. Annals Transvaal Mus. 19 (2): 153-209.
      Utsumi, K. L., Eifler, M. A., Muradzikwa, T. E., Luyanda, B., Kanyanga, M. K., Liu, E. F., ... & Eifler, D. A. (2024). Habitat connectivity and plant characteristics affecting a fossorial skink, Typhlacontias brevipes. African Journal of Ecology, 62(3), E13307.
      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.

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