Dalophia angolensis Gans

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 : 30-31

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Dalophia angolensis Gans
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Dalophia angolensis Gans

Dalophia angolensis Gans, 1976: 6 . TYPE LOCAL­ ITY: ‘‘ Calombe , 7 km. west of Villa Luso , on Vila Luso­Moxico road, Angola’ ’. Holotype: CZL 167 View Materials . Paratypes: AMNH 111339 About AMNH ; CZL 50 View Materials , 204 View Materials , 265 View Materials , 292–300 View Materials , 317–318 View Materials , 387–388 View Materials , 399– 400 View Materials .

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Broadley et al. (1976: 446–451).

RANGE: Known from type series only.

Dalophia colobura (Boulenger)

Monopeltis colobura G. Boulenger, 1910: 495 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘ Sesheke Barotseland’ ’, Zambia. Syntypes: BMNH 1910.6.18.11:RR1946.8.8.96; SAM 4663 View Materials .

Monopeltis ? colobura ( longicauda new species?) Werner , 1915: 340. TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘ Okawango’ ’, Namibia. Holotype: Formerly in the Zoologisches Museum, Hamburg; destroyed.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Loveridge (1941: 432) considered this form a synonym of T. pistillum , and T. longicauda a full species. FitzSimons (1943: 388) included T. ellenbergeri in synonymy. R. Laurent (1964: 88) considered M. colobura a valid species, distinct from M. granti , and with M. luluae as a subspecies.

RANGE: Upper Zambezi district, Barotseland, and northeastern parts of Namibia.

Dalophia ellenbergeri (Angel)

Monopeltis ellenbergeri Angel, 1920: 615 . TYPE

LOCALITY: ‘‘Lealui Dist. (Haut­Zambéze)’’.

Syntypes: MHNP 20.78–20.80.

Dalophia ellenbergeri Loveridge, 1941: 433 .

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Loveridge (1941: 433). FitzSimons (1943: 388) considered this species a synonym of T. granti colobura . See also Broadley (1971a, 1971c, 1997b), Broad­

ley et al. (1976), Guibé (1954), and Laurent (1947).

RANGE: Known from the types only.

Dalophia gigantea (Peracca) Monopeltis giganteus Peracca, 1903: 1 . TYPE LO­

CALITY: ‘‘Congo’’. Syntypes: IMZUT 2844,

MSNG C.E.36071.

Monopeltis truncata Witte, 1922: 68 . TYPE LOCAL­

ITY: ‘‘ Kwango’ ’, Congo. Holotype: RGMC 32. Dalophia gigantea Loveridge, 1941: 429 . Emen­

dation.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Loveridge (1941: 429), Witte (1954: 991), Broadley et al. (1976).

RANGE: Kwango district, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Dalophia granti (Boulenger) Monopeltis granti G. Boulenger, 1907b: 48 . TYPE

LOCALITY: ‘‘Beira, Portuguese East Africa’’. Ho­

lotype: BMNH 1907.4.29.33:RR1946.8.31.98.

Monopeltis mossambica Cott, 1934: 155 . TYPE LO­

CALITY: ‘‘ Caia’ ’, Mozambique. Holotype:

BMNH 1933.7.1.2:RR1946.8.31.99. Paratype:

BMNH 1933.7.1.86.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Loveridge (1941: 434) considered this form a synonym of T. pistillum . FitzSimons (1943: 386). R. Laurent (1964: 88) considered granti possibly a synonym of T. pistillum , and M. mossambica a valid species or race.

RANGE: Portuguese East Africa (= Mozambique) from Beira to Mozambique.

Dalophia jallae (Peracca)

Monopeltis jallae Peracca, 1910: 1 . TYPE LOCAL­ ITY: ‘‘ Zambese (Barotseland)’’, Zambia. Syntypes: IMZUT 4011 ; MSNG C.E.37466.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Loveridge (1941: 433).

RANGE: Known from the types only.

Dalophia longicauda (Werner)

Monopeltis colobura ( longicauda , new species?) Werner , 1915: 340. TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘ Okawango’ ’ (between 19 ° and 21 ° 30 ̍ E longitude), Namibia. Holotype: ZMH 4275 View Materials .

Dalophia longicauda: Loveridge, 1941: 432 .

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Broadley et al.

(1976: 459–463). See also Auerbach (1987),

Branch (1988a, identification), and Broadley and Blake (1979, checklist).

RANGE: Botswana; Tamafupi: Zimbabwe; Victoria Falls, Wankie National Park.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Amphisbaenidae

Genus

Dalophia

Loc

Dalophia angolensis Gans

GANS, CARL 2005
2005
Loc

Dalophia ellenbergeri

Loveridge, A. 1941: 433
1941
Loc

Dalophia longicauda: Loveridge, 1941: 432

Loveridge, A. 1941: 432
1941
Loc

Monopeltis jallae

Peracca, M. G. 1910: 1
1910
Loc

Dalophia gigantea

Peracca, M. G. 1903: 1
1903
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