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Genus of lizards

Dibamus is a genus of legless lizards in the family Dibamidae.

Etymology

Greek διβαμος dibamos "two-footed, on two legs".

The following 24 species are recognized as being valid.

Dibamus alfredi Taylor, 1962 – Alfred's blind skink, Alfred's dibamid lizard, Alfred's limbless skink
Dibamus bogadeki Darevsky, 1992
Dibamus booliati Das & Yaakob, 2003 – Boo Liat's blind lizard
Dibamus bourreti Angel, 1935 – Bourret's blind skink
Dibamus celebensis Schlegel, 1858
Dibamus dalaiensis Neang, Holden, Eastoe, Seng, Ith & L. Grismer, 2011
Dibamus deharvengi Ineich, 1999
Dibamus dezwaani Das & Lim, 2005
Dibamus floweri Quah, Anuar, L. Grismer & Grassby-Lewis, 2017 – Flowers's blind lizard
Dibamus greeri Darevsky, 1992 – Greer's blind skink
Dibamus ingeri Das & Lim, 2003
Dibamus kondaoensis Honda, Ota, Hikida & Darevsky, 2001
Dibamus leucurus (Bleeker, 1860) – white blind skink
Dibamus manadotuaensis Koppetsch, Böhme & Koch, 2019
Dibamus montanus M.A. Smith, 1921 – mountain blind skink
Dibamus nicobaricum Steindachner, 1867
Dibamus novaeguineae A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839
Dibamus seramensis Greer, 1985 – Seram blind skink
Dibamus smithi Greer, 1985 – Smith's blind skink
Dibamus somsaki Honda, Nabhitabhata, Ota & Hikida, 1997 – Somsak's blind lizard, Somsak's dibamid lizard
Dibamus taylori Greer, 1985 – Lesser Sunda blind lizard, Taylor's blind skink
Dibamus tebal Das & Lim, 2009
Dibamus tiomanensis Díaz, Leong, L. Grismer & Yaakob, 2004 – Tioman Island blind lizard
Dibamus vorisi Das & Lim, 2003

Added in 2023: Dibamus tropcentr [ia] Kliukin, Nguyen, Bragin & Poyarkov in Kliukin et al., 2023 – Ninh Thuận blind lizard

Note: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Dibamus.

"Dibamus ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). www.itis.gov.
^ Genus Dibamus at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
^ Neang T, Holden J, Eastoe T, Seng R, Ith S, Grismer LL (2011). "A new species of Dibamus (Squamata: Dibamidae) from Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary, southwestern Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia". Zootaxa 2828: 58-68.
^ Jaeger EC (1944). A Source-book of Biological Names and Terms. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas. p. 71.

Boulenger GA (1887). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume III. ... , Dibamidæ, ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 575 pp. + Plates I-XL. (Genus Dibamus, p. 435).
Duméril AMC, Bibron G (1839). Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome cinquième . Paris: Roret. viii + 854 pp. (Dibamus, new genus, pp. 833–834). (in French).

Taxon identifiers
Dibamus	Wikidata: Q2342623 Wikispecies: Dibamus ADW: Dibamus BOLD: 171577 CoL: 44FJ EoL: 35994 GBIF: 2451685 iNaturalist: 33157 IRMNG: 1395889 ITIS: 209060 NCBI: 261509 Open Tree of Life: 707069 Paleobiology Database: 374210

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