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Alfred's blind skink
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Dibamidae
Genus: Dibamus
Species: D. alfredi
Binomial name
Dibamus alfredi
Taylor, 1962

Alfred's blind skink (Dibamus alfredi), also known commonly as Alfred's dibamid lizard, Alfred's limbless skink, and Taylor's limbless skink, is a species of blind lizard in the family Dibamidae. The species is endemic to Southeast Asia.

Related species

Another species of Dibamus once had been referred to as Alfred's blind skink, but is now a separate species, Dibamus dezwaani.

Geographic range

Alfred's blind skink is known with certainty only from Peninsular Thailand. Records from Sabah in Malaysian Borneo represent Dibamus vorisi. The Nias (Indonesia) record represents Dibamus dezwaani.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of D. alfredi are monsoonal evergreen forests and mixed dipterocarp forests, where it lives in humus or leaf litter.

Reproduction

D. alfredi is oviparous.

Naming

D. alfredi is named after ichthyologist Eric R. Alfred, who was the director of the Raffles Museum in Singapore (1967–1972).

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Dibamus alfredi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 17 November 2020.
  3. ^ 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).
  4. ^ Das, Indraneil ; 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.
  5. "Former Directors". Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research. Archived from the original on 2007-06-12. Retrieved 2007-11-15.

Further reading

  • Taylor EH (1962). "New Oriental Reptiles". University of Kansas Science Bulletin 43 (7): 209–263. (Dibamus alfredi, new species, pp. 246–248, Figure 13).
Taxon identifiers
Dibamus alfredi


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