Ancylocranium newalae Loveridge

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Ancylocranium newalae Loveridge

Ancylocranium barkeri newalae Loveridge, 1962: 1 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘ Newala, Southern Province, Tanganyika’ ’. Holotype: MCZ 67001. Paratypes: BMNH 1959.1 .05.18, 1962.177, 1962.178; MCZ 67002–67004 .

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Gans and Kochva

(1966: 109). See also Broadley and Howell

(1991: list). RANGE: Known from the types only.

Ancylocranium parkeri Gans and Kochva Ancylocranium somalicum parkeri Gans and Kochva, 1966: 95 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘460 EX8020 ̍ N in the Haud, Northern Territory, Somali Republic, at... 2100 feet.’’ Holotype: BMNH 1958.1.3.49. Paratypes: BMNH 1958.1.3.50, 1958.1.3.51 (longitude 45058 ° E, latitude 8024 ° N, and longitude 45043 ° E, latitude 8026 ° N, 2300 and 2350 feet).

DISCUSSION OF FORM: None.

RANGE: Somali Republic, Northern Territory, Haud.

Ancylocranium somalicum (Scortecci) Anops somalicum Scortecci, 1931a: 6 . TYPE LO­

CALITY: ‘‘Caitoi, Uebi Scebeli’’, Somali Repub­

lic. Lectotype (Gans and Kochva, 1966: 93):

IMZUT 3556. Lectoparatype: MSNM 1294

(Benadir Province, Somali Republic).

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Loveridge (1941: 370) and Gans and Kochva (1966: 92). See also Joger (1987, biogeography), and Lanza (1983, distribution).

RANGE: Somali Republic, mouth of Giuba River to Eggi.

Genus Anops Bell

Anops Bell, 1833a: 99 . Type species: Anops kingii , by monotypy.

Anopsibaena Stejneger, 1916: 85 . New name for Anops Bell , thought to be preoccupied by Anops Oken, 1815: 358 , a name later (Hemming, 1956: 3) shown to be unavailable.

See discussion in Vanzolini (1951b: 115)

and Gans and Rhodes (1964: 3).

Anops bilabialatus Stimson

Anops bilabialatus Stimson, 1972: 205 . TYPE LO­

CALITY: 260 km north of Xavantina, Estado do

Mato Grosso, Brazil. Holotype: MZUSP 21276 .

Paratypes: BMNH 1971.1028, 1971.1029,

UMMZ 131700, MZUSP 21277.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Stimson (1972: 205). See also Vanzolini (1986, 1999, variation).

RANGE: Known only from the types.

Anops kingi Bell

Anops kingii Bell, 1833a: 99, 1835: 391 . TYPE LO­ CALITY: ‘‘In America Australi.’’ Type: Apparently lost.

Amphisbaena galeata Wiegmann, 1834: 21 . Gray, 1844: 72. Nomen nudum.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Gans and Rhodes (1964: 3) and Vanzolini (1999). See also Cendrero (1972, distibution), Dely (1970, variation), Gallardo (1970a, ecology; 1971b, ecology, distribution; 1973, conservation; 1977, 1979, 1982, distribution), Laurent and Teran (1981, distribution), Montero (1992a, 1996b, distribution), Müller and Böhler (1972, taxonomy), Vaz­Ferreira et al. (1970, 1973, oviposition), Vega (2001, ecology, reproduction), and Williams and Wichman (1989, distribution).

RANGE: Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), Uruguay, and Argentina (inland to Cordoba, south to Rio Negro).

Genus Aulura Barbour

Aulura Barbour, 1914b: 96 . Type species: Aulura anomala , by monotypy.

See discussion in Vanzolini (1951b: 121).

Aulura anomala Barbour

Aulura anomala Barbour, 1914b: 96 . TYPE LOCAL­ ITY: ‘‘ Brazil.’’ Holotype: MCZ 4660 .

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Vanzolini (1948a: 275) and Cunha (1961: 172). See also Amaral (1937b, 1937d), Borges­Nojosa and Caramaschi (2000, distribution), Cunha (1961), Gans (1971d, variation;1974b, distribution), and Montero (1997b, skull).

RANGE: States of Para and Marahão (BMNH 1934.5.28.1 from Barra­do­Corda), Brazil.