Lomi's blind legless skink
Lomi's blind legless skink is a species of lizard in the subfamily Acontinae of the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Little Namaqualand in South Africa.
Etymology
The specific name lomiae honours Miss Lomi Wessels Brown, Collection Manager of lower vertebrates and invertebrates at the Transvaal Museum since 1976.
Taxonomy
In 1986 South African herpetologist Wulf Dietrich Haacke originally named this species Typhlosaurus lomii, which is masculine. In 2004 J. Pieter Michels and Aaron Matthew Bauer corrected the specific name to lomiae, which is feminine because it honors a woman.
Description
T. lomiae is limbless, blind, slender, and small. The usual snout-to-vent length of adults is. Dorsally, it is bright goldish pink, while ventrally, it is whitish and almost translucent.
Habitat
The preferred habitat of T. lomiae is succulent veld with sandy soil, such as vegetated sand dunes with termite nests, at altidudes from near sea level to.
Reproduction
T. lomiae is viviparous.