Typhlacontias punctatissimus bogerti Laurent, 1964

Ceríaco, L. M. P., De Sá, S., Bandeira, S., Valério, H., Stanley, E. L., Kuhn, A. L., Marques, M. P., Vindum, J. V., Blackburn, D. C. & Bauer, A. M., 2016, Herpetological Survey of Iona National Park and Namibe Regional Natural Park, with a Synoptic List of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Namibe Province, Southwestern Angola, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 63 (2), pp. 15-61 : 30-31

BOGERT’S SPECKLED WESTERN BURROWING SKINK – Fig. 11

Typhlacontias punctatissimus bogerti Laurent, 1964

MATERIAL.— Espinheira, 29 November 2013, 16º47ʹ7.02ʺS, 12º21ʹ16.86ʺE, 457 m ( CAS 254807); Pico Azevedo, 7 December 2013, 15º32ʹ2.4ʺS, 12º29ʹ31.1ʺE, 359 m (CAS 254932–254938), 15º32ʹ5.8ʺS, 12º29ʹ29.5ʺE, 366 m (CAS 254944–254945).

COMMENTS. — H a a c k e (1997) reviewed the taxonomic and nomenclatural history of Typhlacontias punctatissimus and its subspecies and recognized two sympatric subspecies in southern Angola — T. punctatissimus punctatissimus Bocage, 1873, and the Angolan endemic T. punctatissimus bogerti Laurent, 1964. In all of our specimens, the second and third upper labials are in contact with the eye and there is a second supraocular. Both characters fit the description presented by Haacke (1997) as diagnostic for T. punctatissimus bogerti. The species is known to be viviparous and one female specimen (CAS 254945) contains an almost fully developed neonate.

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FIGURE 11. Adult Bogert’s Speckled Western Burrowing Skink Typhla- contias punctatissimus bogerti Laurent, 1964, from Pico Azevedo. Photo by Edward Stanley.