Psammophylax variabilis Guenther , 1893

Conradie, Werner, Bittencourt-Silva, Gabriela B., Engelbrecht, Hanlie M., Loader, Simon P., Menegon, Michele, Nanvonamuquitxo, Cristovao, Scott, Michael & Tolley, Krystal A., 2016, Exploration into the hidden world of Mozambique's sky island forests: new discoveries of reptiles and amphibians, Zoosystematics and Evolution 92 (2), pp. 163-180 : 173

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.92.9948

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9DA068DA-B881-4091-99FE-252D31DDC7D1

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5A88C971-26DA-52F4-B8C0-70DCAD05B13E

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scientific name

Psammophylax variabilis Guenther , 1893
status

 

Psammophylax variabilis Guenther, 1893

Material

Mt. Namuli ( PEM R21186 View Materials , female, 329 mm SVL + 77 mm TL) .

Comments

Collected in montane grassland on the Muretha Plateau (Fig. 4H View Figure 4 ). This represents only the third record of this species for the whole of Mozambique ( Timberlake et al. 2009; Farooq and Conradie 2015).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Lamprophiidae

Genus

Psammophylax