Meyer's blind legless skink or the variable blind legless skink (Typhlosaurus meyeri) is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is found in Namibia and South Africa.[1]
| Meyer's blind legless skink | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Scincidae |
| Genus: | Typhlosaurus |
| Species: | T. meyeri
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| Binomial name | |
| Typhlosaurus meyeri Boettger, 1894
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Etymology
editThe specific names meyeri, is in honor of German ornithologist Adolf Bernhard Meyer.[2]
References
edit- ^ Typhlosaurus meyeri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 7 January 2020.
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Typhlosaurus braini, p. 37; T. meyeri, p. 177).
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