Monopeltis mauricei Parker

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 : 36-37

Monopeltis mauricei Parker

Monopeltis sphenorhynchus mauricei H. Parker, 1935c: 582 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘ Monjalatsela , near Ghanzi, Bechuanaland’ ’ ( Botswana). Holotype: BMNH 1933.9.9.14:RR1946.8.2.37.

Monopeltis ocularis FitzSimons, 1941: 277 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘Swart Modder, Rietfontein’’, Cape Province. Holotype: McGregor Museum, Kimberley, Cape Province (unnumbered).

DISCUSSION OF FORM: FitzSimons (1943: 390), Broadley (1962: 824), Broadley et al. (1976: 406–410).

RANGE: Cape Province, Botswana, Zambia.

Monopeltis perplexus Gans

Monopeltis perplexus Gans, 1976: 6 . TYPE LOCAL­

ITY: ‘‘Hanha or Capelongo, Angola’’. Holotype:

AMNH 47732. Paratypes: AMNH 47731,

47733–47735.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Broadley et al.

(1976: 413–416).

RANGE: Known from type only.

Monopeltis remaclei Witte

Monopeltis remaclei Witte, 1933a: 68 . TYPE LO­

CALITY: ‘‘Lukulu près de Kiambi’’, Democratic

Republic of Congo. Holotype: RGMC 8692.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Witte (1954: 998),

Broadley et al. (1976: 417–421).

RANGE: Tanganyika district, Democratic

Republic of Congo.

Monopeltis rhodesianus Broadley et al., 1976

Monopeltis capensis rhodesianus Broadley et al.

1976: 394. TYPE LOCALITY: Nyashanu, Sabi

Tribal Trust Land, Buhera District, Zimbabwe.

Holotype: UM 28699. Paratypes: AMNH

112980–112983; UM 28677–28690; 28692–

28698; 28700–28710, 28713–28720, 28722–

28776; taken with holotype.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Broadley et al. (1976: 394–398), Broadley (1997c). See also Branch (1998, identification), Broadley (1962, 1988b, distribution), Broadley and Blake (1979, list), and Lambiris (1993, 1994, list).

RANGE: Zimbabwe, southern Zambia, southern Malawi, and central Mozambique.

Monopeltis scalper (Günther)

Phractogonus scalper Günther, 1876: 678 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘ Angola’ ’, in error; actually ‘‘ Kilemba in Urua’ ’ (= Kilembe, lat. 7 ° 40 ̍ S, long. 26 ° 03 ̍ E, Democratic Republic of Congo). Holotype: BMNH 76.7.1.2:RR1946.8.9.1.

Lepidosternon scalprum Strauch, 1881 : col. 124. Emendation.

Monopeltis gerardi G. Boulenger, 1913b: 392 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘ Kikondja (Katanga)’’, Democratic Republic of Congo. Holotype: RGMC 1201.

Monopeltis scalper bulsi R. Laurent, 1954: 68 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘Kamina, Haut Lomami’’, Democratic Republic of Congo. Holotype: RGMC 16179. Paratypes: RGMC 15917, 16015, 16016, 16178.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Loveridge (1941: 413). Laurent (1954: 68, 1956b: 243), suggested that the form bulsi may be a full species. See also Broadley et al. (1976, variation), Monard (1937), and Witte (1954: 1004).

RANGE: Democratic Republic of Congo.