The image shows a FitzSimons Burrowing Skink (Typhlacontias brevipes) photographed in the Namib Desert near Swakopmund, Namibia, Southern Africa. This

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The image shows a FitzSimons Burrowing Skink (Typhlacontias brevipes) photographed in the Namib Desert near Swakopmund, Namibia, Southern Africa. This species has no eyelids nor any external ear openings.

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Photo credit: © TONY CAMACHO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: africa, brevipes, burrowing, desert, dune, fitzsimons, insectivorous, legless, namib, namibia, sand, skink, southern, typhlacontias