Pedioplanis serodioi Parrinha, Marques, Heinicke, Khalid, Parker, Tolley, Childers, Conradie, Bauer & Ceríaco, 2021

Marques, Mariana P., Parrinha, Diogo, Lopes-Lima, Manuel, Tiutenko, Arthur, Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2024, An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola, ZooKeys 1201, pp. 167-217 : 167-217

Pedioplanis serodioi Parrinha, Marques, Heinicke, Khalid, Parker, Tolley, Childers, Conradie, Bauer & Ceríaco, 2021

Fig. 7 e

Records.

Dirt road to the top of the mountain, near Maylowe [- 13.8328, 13.2652, 794 m] ( MHNC-UP / REP 636; CAS 266122); Dirt road to Quilengues [- 13.8159, 13.3264, 892 m] ( MHNC-UP / REP 637, 638); Maylowe [- 13.8355, 13.2755, 798 m] ( MHNC-UP / REP 639, 646); 2 km N of Maylowe [- 13.8280, 13.2625, 820 m] (MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001717 - 001756).

Comments.

This recently described species ( Parrinha et al. 2021) is widely distributed through the lowlands of southwestern Angola, from central Benguela Province to western Cunene Province, with exception of the more xeric areas of southwestern Namibe Province. As with other lacertids, this species was only recorded from the arid lowlands of the inselberg.

Figures

Figure 7. a Rhoptropus aff. montanus b Heliobolus crawfordi (adult) c Heliobolus crawfordi (juvenile) d Pedioplanis haackei e Pedioplanis serodioi f Cordylus phonolithos g Cordylosaurus subtessellatus h Gerrhosaurus sp. Photographs by AT (a, b, e, f, h) and LMPC (c, d, g).