Alfred's blind skink
| Alfred's blind skink | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Dibamidae |
| Genus: | Dibamus |
| Species: | D. alfredi
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| Binomial name | |
| Dibamus alfredi Taylor, 1962
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Alfred's blind skink (Dibamus alfredi), also known commonly as Alfred's dibamid lizard,[1][2] Alfred's limbless skink,[3] and Taylor's limbless skink,[3] is a species of blind lizard in the family Dibamidae. The species is endemic to Southeast Asia.[1][2]
Related species
[edit]Another species of Dibamus once had been referred to as Alfred's blind skink, but is now a separate species, Dibamus dezwaani.[4]
Geographic range
[edit]Alfred's blind skink is known with certainty only from Peninsular Thailand. Records from Sabah in Malaysian Borneo represent Dibamus vorisi.[1] The Nias (Indonesia) record represents Dibamus dezwaani.[4]
Habitat
[edit]The preferred natural habitats of D. alfredi are monsoonal evergreen forests and mixed dipterocarp forests, where it lives in humus or leaf litter.[1]
Reproduction
[edit]Naming
[edit]D. alfredi is named after ichthyologist Eric R. Alfred, who was the director of the Raffles Museum in Singapore (1967–1972).[2][3][5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Duengkae, P.; Cota, M.; Sumontha, M.; Trivalarait, P. (2018). "Dibamus alfredi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T99942416A99942419. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T99942416A99942419.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ a b c d Dibamus alfredi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 17 November 2020.
- ^ a b c Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Dibamus alfredi, p. 5).
- ^ a b Das, Indraneil [in French]; Lim, Kelvin K. P. (2005). "New species of Dibamus from Pulau Nias, Indonesia". Journal of Herpetology. 39: 113–117. doi:10.1670/0022-1511(2005)039[0113:NSODSD]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 85831919. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
- ^ "Former Directors". Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research. Archived from the original on 2007-06-12. Retrieved 2007-11-15.
Further reading
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- Taylor EH (1962). "New Oriental Reptiles". University of Kansas Science Bulletin 43 (7): 209–263. (Dibamus alfredi, new species, pp. 246–248, Figure 13).
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