| Alfred's blind skink | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Dibamia |
| 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, [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]
Another species of Dibamus once had been referred to as Alfred's blind skink, but is now a separate species, Dibamus dezwaani . [4]
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]
The preferred natural habitats of D. alfredi are monsoonal evergreen forests and mixed dipterocarp forests, where it lives in humus or leaf litter. [1]
D. alfredi is named after ichthyologist Eric R. Alfred, who was the director of the Raffles Museum in Singapore (1967–1972). [2] [3] [5]
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