| Higher Taxa | Amphisbaenidae, Amphisbaenia, Lacertoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | |
| Synonym | Dalophia angolensis GANS 1976
Dalophia angolensis — GANS 2005: 29
Dalophia angolensis — MARQUES et al. 2018
Dalophia angolensis — PIETERSEN et al. 2021 |
| Distribution | Angola, Zambia
Type locality: ‘‘Calombe, 7 km. west of Villa Luso, on Vila Luso-Moxico road, Angola’’.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: IICT (= CZL, CZ-IICT) 167-1959. Paratypes: AMNH 111339; CZL 50, 204, 265, 292–300, 317–318, 387–388, 399–400 (formerly CZL 167, Centro de Zoologia, Ministerio do Ultramar, Lisbon; now Centro de Zoologia - Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, CZ-IICT) |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Gans 1976: 6 |
| Comment | |
| Etymology | Named after its distribution in Angola. |
| References |
- Broadley, D.G., Gans,C. & Visser, J. 1976. Studies on Amphisbaenians. (6). The Genera Monopeltis and Dalophia in Southern Africa. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 157 (5): 311-486 - get paper here
- Ceríaco LMP, Parrinha D, Marques MP 2021. Saving collections: taxonomic revision of the herpetological collection of the Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisbon (Portugal) with a protocol to rescue abandoned collections. ZooKeys 1052: 85-156 - get paper here
- Conradie W and Branch WR. 2016. The herpetofauna of the Cubango, Cuito, and lower Cuando river catchments of south-eastern Angola. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 10 (2) [Special Section]: 6–36 - get paper here
- Conradie W, Keates C, Verburgt L, Baptista NL, Harvey J, Júlio T, Neef G. 2022. Contributions to the herpetofauna of the Angolan Okavango-Cuando-Zambezi River drainages. Part 2: Lizards (Sauria), chelonians, and crocodiles. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 16(2): 181–214 (e322) - get paper here
- Gans, C. 1976. Three new spade-snouted amphisbaenians from Angola (Amphisbaenia, Reptilia). American Museum Novitates 2590: 1-11 - get paper here
- Gans, C. 2005. CHECKLIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE AMPHISBAENIA OF THE WORLD. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 289: 1-130 - get paper here
- Marques, Mariana P.; Luis M. P. Ceríaco , David C. Blackburn , and Aaron M. Bauer 2018. Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola -- Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840–2017). Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (Ser. 4) 65: 1-501 (Supplement II)
- Pietersen, Darren, Verburgt, Luke & Davies, John 2021. Snakes and other reptiles of Zambia and Malawi. Struik Nature / Penguin Random House South Africa, 376 pp., ISBN 9781775847373
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