Dibamus bourreti

Dibamus bourreti, also known as Bourret's blind skink, the white-tailed dibamid, or the white-tailed worm-like lizard, is a species of legless lizard in the family Dibamidae. The species is endemic to Asia.

Dibamus bourreti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Dibamidae
Genus: Dibamus
Species:
D. bourreti
Binomial name
Dibamus bourreti
Angel, 1935

Etymology

The specific name, bourreti, is in honor of French herpetologist René Léon Bourret.[2]

Geographic range

D. bourreti is found in China and Vietnam.[3]

References
  1. Nguyen, T.Q., Wang, Y. & Yang, J. (2019). "Dibamus bourreti'". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2019: e.T177579A112101381.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Dibamus bourreti, p. 35).
  3. "Dibamus bourreti ". The Reptile Database. http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Dibamus&species=bourreti&search_param=%28%28search%3D%27Dibamus+bourreti%27%29%29

Further reading
  • Angel F (1935). "Un lézard nouveau de la familie des dibamidés ". Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, Séries 2, 7: 354–356. (Dibamus bourreti, new species). (in French).


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