Typhlacontias

Typhlacontias is a genus of legless, burrowing skinks in the family Scincidae, a genus endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa.<ref name="Whiting et al. 2003"/><ref name=RDB/> Its sister group is the clade consisting of the genera Feylinia and Melanoseps.<ref name="Whiting et al. 2003"/>

Species

Seven species are recognized as being valid:<ref name=RDB/>

• Typhlacontias brevipes Template:Small – FitzSimon's burrowing skink, short blind dart skink
• Typhlacontias gracilis Template:Small – Roux's blind dart skink
• Typhlacontias johnsonii Template:Small – Johnson's western burrowing skink
• Typhlacontias kataviensis Template:Small – Katavi blind dart skink
• Typhlacontias punctatissimus Template:Small – dotted blind dart skink, speckled western burrowing skink
• Typhlacontias rohani Template:Small – Rohan's blind dart skink
• Typhlacontias rudebecki Template:Small – Rudebeck's western burrowing skink

Further reading

• Bocage JVB ("1872" [1873]). "Mélanges erpétologiques. II. Sur quelques Reptiles et Batraciens nouveaux, rares ou peu connus d'Afrique occidentale ". Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas Physicas e Naturaes, Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa 4: 209–227. (Typhlacontias, new genus, p. 213). (in French).

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