Alfred's blind skink
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Dibamia |
| 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 | edit source]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 | edit source]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 | edit source]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 | edit source]Naming
[edit | edit source]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
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- ^ a b c d Dibamus alfredi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 17 November 2020.
- ^ a b c Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). (Dibamus alfredi, p. 5).
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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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