Panaspis mocamedensis CERÍACO, HEINICKE, PARKER, MARQUES & BAUER, 2020

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Higher Taxa	Scincidae, Eugongylinae (Eugongylini), Scincoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Moçamedes Snake-Eyed Skink Portuguese: Lagartixa da Manta-Morta de Moçâmedes
Synonym	Panaspis mocamedensis CERÍACO, HEINICKE, PARKER, MARQUES & BAUER 2020
Distribution	Angola (Namibe) Type locality: river bed, 45 km SW of Virei (-16.11958°, 12.83458°, 523 m elevation), Namibe Province, Republic of Angola
Reproduction
Types	Holotype. FLMNH 187243 (field number AMB 10652), unsexed adult, collected by Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Ishan Agarwal, Suzana Bandeira and Pedro Baptista on 3 December 2016 (Fig. 17–18).Paratypes. Four specimens, all from the Republic of Angola: CAS 263325, 263326, 263327 (field numbers AMB 10649, 10650, 10651 respectively) all unsexed adults, with the same collecting data as the holotype; CAS 264266 (field number AMB 11401) from Maungo farm (-14.538018°, 12.744793°, 365 m), Namibe Province, Republic of Angola, collected by L.M.P. Ceríaco, Mariana P. Marques, Joyce Janota and Alvaro (varito) Baptista on 9 August 2018;
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Panaspis mocamedensis sp. nov. can be distinguished from other members of the genus by the following combination of characteristics: 1) absence of supranasals; 2) ablepharine eye (as defined by Greer 1974); 3) frontoparietals fused; 4) dorsum coppery-brown, with a dorsolateral light stripe extending approximately to midbody, accompanied by a thinner stripe composed by black dots band starting on the temporals and extending to the base of the tail; 5) presence of rows of light spots on the neck; 6) absence of a white ventrolateral stripe; 7) 23 to 24 midbody scales rows. Additional details (1799 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
Etymology	The specific epithet “mocamedensis” refers to the former name of Namibe Province (Moçâmedes), to which the species is apparently endemic.
References	CERÍACO, LUIS M. P.; MATTHEW P. HEINICKE, KELLY L. PARKER, MARIANA P. MARQUES, AARON M. BAUER 2020. A review of the African snake-eyed skinks (Scincidae: Panaspis) from Angola, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 4747 (1): 77–112 - get paper here Lobón-Rovira J, Vaz Pinto P, S. Becker F, Tolley KA, Measey J, Bennet B, Boon B, de Sá S, Conradie W 2022. An updated herpetofaunal species inventory of Iona National Park in southwestern Angola. Check List 18(2): 289-321 - get paper here Marques MP, Parrinha D, Lopes-Lima M, Tiutenko A, Bauer AM, Ceríaco LMP 2024. A treasure trove of endemics: two new species of snake-eyed skinks of the genus Panaspis Cope, 1868 (Squamata, Scincidae) from the Serra da Neve Inselberg, southwestern Angola. Evolutionary Systematics 8(2): 167-182 - get paper here Marques MP, Parrinha D, Lopes-Lima M, Tiutenko A, Bauer AM, Ceríaco LMP 2024. An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola. ZooKeys 1201: 167-217 - get paper here
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3A3DB69F-76E8-4219-8B2D… Google images

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