One-toed Nessia

The one-toed nessia, also called the toeless snake skink, is endemic to Sri Lanka and widely distributed in the wet zones at 400 to 1,500 m, at Kandy, Nawalapitiya, Deniyaya and Peradeniya. The body is slender and of equal girth, the snout short and obtuse, and the lower eyelid has a transparent disc. The limbs lack digits. The back is brown, dark or grey-black, and the scale rows at midbody number 26 to 28 (Wikipedia, general species account).

It hides under rubble and decaying logs and in soil or humus in montane forest, wriggling into loose soil when exposed. It eats insects and lays two eggs in loose soil. No national Red List category was found.