Chirindia orientalis (Sternfeld)

GANS, CARL, 2005, Checklist And Bibliography Of The Amphisbaenia Of The World, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (289), pp. 1-130 : 27

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090(2005)289<0001:CABOTA>2.0.CO;2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5457441

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scientific name

Chirindia orientalis (Sternfeld)
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Chirindia orientalis (Sternfeld)

Amphisbaenula orientalis Sternfeld, 1911c: 246 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘ Mikindani’ ’, Tanzania. Syntypes: BMNH 1935.2.8.7:RR1946.8.2.18; MCZ 21904 ; ZMB 22067, 22407 View Materials (two specimens), 22408 (two specimens), 22409 .

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Loveridge (1941: 396) and Gans and Rhodes (1967).

RANGE: Known from the type locality only.

Loveridge, A. 1941. Revision of the African lizards of the family Amphisbaenidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 87 (5): 353 - 451. [all]

Sternfeld, R. 1911 c. Zur Reptilien-fauna Deutsch- Ostafrikas. Sitzungsberichte Gesellschaft der Naturforschenden Freunde, Berlin 1911: 245 - 251. [pp. 246 - 247; Amphisbaenula orientalis]

MCZ

Museum of Comparative Zoology

ZMB

Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Zoological Collections)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Amphisbaenidae

Genus

Chirindia