Monopeltis capensis A. Smith

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 : 35

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scientific name	Monopeltis capensis A. Smith
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Monopeltis capensis A. Smith, 1848 (1834– 1849): pl. 67. TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘24 ° lat. S’’, South Africa; corrected to ‘‘ southwestern Transvaal’ ’ (Broadley et at., 1976). Syntypes: BMNH 65.5.5.179: RR1946.8.31.87, RR 1946.8.31.96 (see FitzSimons, 1937a: 267) .

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Loveridge (1941: 423), FitzSimons (1943: 391), Broadley (1962: 823), and Broadley et al. (1976: 385– 388). See also Auerbach (1985, 1987, distribution), Barry (1963, tympanum), Bates (1996, distribution), Bellairs and Boyd (1947, anatomy), Branch (1988a, identification), Broadley (1971a, 1973, 1997c), Broadley and Blake (1979, distribution), De Waal (1978, distribution), Flower (1925, longevity), Haacke (1984, distribution), Huang and Gans (1971, chromosomes), Hughes (1988, longevity), Kritzinger (1946, skull), Lambiris (1993, 1994, list), Mertens (1971, distribu tion), Visser (1967, reproduction), and Zangerl (1944, skull; 1945, postcranial skeleton).

RANGE: Southwestern Botswana and central regions of South Africa.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Reptilia
Order	Squamata
Family	Amphisbaenidae
Genus	Monopeltis