Zygaspis vandami (FITZSIMONS, 1930)
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Zygaspis vandami
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| Higher Taxa | Amphisbaenidae, Amphisbaenia, Lacertoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Van Dam’s Dwarf Worm Lizard |
| Synonym | Amphisbaena vandami FITZSIMONS 1930 Zygaspis violacea vandami — FITZSIMONS 1943: 380 Zygaspis violacea vandami — LOVERIDGE 1951 Zygaspis violacea vandami — WELCH 1982: 12 Zygaspis vandami vandami — BROADLEY & BROADLEY 1997 Zygaspis vandami — GANS 2005: 39 Zygaspis vandami — BATES et al. 2014: 157 |
| Distribution | South Africa (Northern and Mpumalanga Provinces) Type locality: Louw’s Creek, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: DNMNH (= TM) (Transvaal Museum) |
| Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2892 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Synonymy: Has been treated as synonym of Zygaspis violacea (e.g. LOVERIDGE 1941). Sympatric with Z. quadrifrons in the N Krüger National Park. Habitat: Z. v. vandami FitzSimons usually under stones or logs on sandy or humus-rich soils along the eastern escarpment of South Africa, while Z. v. arenicola is found in alluvial sands on the Mozambique Plain, extending into north-eastern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, north-eastern Swaziland, and inland to the Cretaceous sands of south-eastern Zimbabwe (Jacobsen 1989, as Z. violacea; Broadley & Broadley 1997; Litschka, Koen & Monadjem 2008). Subspecies: Zygaspis vandami arenicola has been elevated to full species status. |
| Etymology | Named after the collector of the types, G.P.F. van Dam, Esq. The subspecies arenicola was named after Latin areni-cola, an inhabitant of sand. |
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