Mochlus sundevallii (Smith, 1849)

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

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.1201.120750

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:23C7E6E7-AE73-4685-AEDA-26DEB0EE0068

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11196702

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/90867A7E-A683-5F6D-9978-A8908044B0F0

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Mochlus sundevallii (Smith, 1849)
status

 

Mochlus sundevallii (Smith, 1849) View in CoL

Record.

2 km N of Maylowe [- 13.8280, 13.2625, 820 m] (specimen not collected).

Comments.

This species occurs throughout southern Africa ( Marques et al. 2018). The specimen was seen active at dusk, under a cattle fence made from dead Mopane trees, in sandy soil with some Mopane leaf litter.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Scincidae

Genus

Mochlus