Zygaspis arenicola Broadley and Broadley

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 : 38

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scientific name

Zygaspis arenicola Broadley and Broadley
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Zygaspis arenicola Broadley and Broadley

Amphisbaena vandami arenicola Broadley and Broadley, 1997: 19 . TYPE LOCALITY: Maputo, Mozambique. Holotype: TMP 2921 View Materials . Paratypes: CG 1818 ; NMP 1374; PEM R10382 ; TMP 2923 View Materials , 3000 View Materials , 3358 View Materials , 3404 View Materials , 29454–29455 View Materials ; ZMB 23699 .

Amphisbaena violacea W.C.H. Peters, 1854: 620 .

Amphisbaena violacea violacea (not Peters) FitzSimons, 1943: 378 (part).

Zygaspis violacea violacea (not Peters) Pooley et al., 1973: 110.

Zygaspis violacea (not Peters).

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Broadley and Broadley (1997: 19, and references therein).

Peters, W. C. H. 1854. Diagnosen neuer Batrachier welche zusammen mit der fruher (24 Juli und 12 August) gegebenen Ubersicht der Schlangen und Eidechsen mitgetheilt werden. Monatsberichte der Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften 1854: 614 - 628. [p. 620; Amphisbaena violacea, Monopeltis capensis]

Pooley, A. C., E. Pooley, W. F. Hadley, and C. Gans. 1973. Ecological aspects of the distribution of subsoil herpetofauna in Ndumu Game Reserve. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 44 (8): 103 - 115.

PEM

Port Elizabeth Museum

ZMB

Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Zoological Collections)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Amphisbaenidae

Genus

Zygaspis