Monopeltis leonhardi Werner

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 : 36

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5457453

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scientific name

Monopeltis leonhardi Werner
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Monopeltis leonhardi Werner

Monopeltis leonhardi Werner, 1910a: 328 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘ Kalahari , zwischen Kgokong und Kang’ ’, Botswana. Holotype: ZMB 23201.

Monopeltis vernayi FitzSimons, 1932: 36 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘ Gomodimo , Central Kalahari’ ’, Botswana. Holotype: TMP 14468.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Loveridge (1941: 410) considered this species a synonym of Monopeltis anchietae , and FitzSimons (1943: 398) retained it as a separate species. See also Auerbach (1987, distribution), Branch (1988a), Broadley and Blake (1979, distribution), Broadley et al. (1976, variation), Fitzsimons and Brain (1958, distribution), Haacke (1984), Joubert (1977, distribution), and Pienaar et al. (1983).

RANGE: Botswana, Kalahari, and areas immediately adjoining.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Amphisbaenidae

Genus

Monopeltis

Loc

Monopeltis leonhardi Werner

GANS, CARL 2005
2005
Loc

Monopeltis vernayi

FitzSimons 1932: 36
1932
Loc

Monopeltis leonhardi

Werner 1910: 328
1910
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