Typhlacontias brevipes

Description

Typhlacontias brevipes, the FitzSimons' burrowing skink, is a skink species is found in the Namib Desert near Swakopmund. It burrows in soft dune sands under leaf litter where it "swims" just below the surface of the loose sand. They are active at night and in the cooler hours of the day when they forage for small insects like ants, termites, antlions and beetles.