Typhlacontias is a genus of legless, burrowing skinks in the family Scincidae, a genus endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa. Its sister group is the clade consisting of the genera Feylinia and Melanoseps.
Typhlacontias is a genus of legless, burrowing skinks in the family Scincidae, a genus endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa. Its sister group is the clade consisting of the genera Feylinia and Melanoseps.
==Species== Seven species are recognized as being valid: Typhlacontias brevipes – FitzSimon's burrowing skink, short blind dart skink Typhlacontias gracilis – Roux's blind dart skink Typhlacontias johnsonii – Johnson's western burrowing skink Typhlacontias kataviensis – Katavi blind dart skink Typhlacontias punctatissimus – dotted blind dart skink, speckled western burrowing skink Typhlacontias rohani – Rohan's blind dart skink Typhlacontias rudebecki – Rudebeck's western burrowing skink
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).