Meyer's blind legless skink explained

Meyer's blind legless skink or the variable blind legless skink (Typhlosaurus meyeri) is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is found in Namibia and South Africa.

Etymology

The specific names meyeri, is in honor of German ornithologist Adolf Bernhard Meyer.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Typhlosaurus braini, p. 37; T. meyeri, p. 177).

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