Typhlacontias

Typhlacontias is a genus of legless, burrowing skinks in the family Scincidae, a genus endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa.[1][2] Its sister group is the clade consisting of the genera Feylinia and Melanoseps.[1]

Typhlacontias
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Scincidae
Subfamily: Scincinae
Genus: Typhlacontias
Bocage, 1873
Type species
Typhlacontias punctatissimus
Bocage, 1873

Species

Seven species are recognized as being valid:[2]

gollark: Maybe some sort of abstract interface for them which is implemented by the class.
gollark: No, no, you need to have a class for this instead of regular booleans, plus a factory.
gollark: Oh, you're *right*, this needs a class for trueness or falseness.
gollark: or perhaps a map:```javascript{ "1": "true", "2": "false", "3": "true"}```
gollark: An array of strings like this: `["true", "false"]`

References
  1. Whiting, Alison 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. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00142-8.
  2. Typhlacontias at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 24 September 2016.

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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