Cynisca muelleri (STRAUCH, 1881)
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Cynisca muelleri
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| Higher Taxa | Amphisbaenidae, Amphisbaenia, Lacertoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Synonym | Amphisbaena mülleri STRAUCH 1881 Amphisbaena muelleri — BOULENGER 1885: 447 Amphisbaena mülleri — MATSCHIE 1893: 210 Cynisca muelleri — KRAMER 1979 Cynisca muelleri — GANS 1987: 55 Cynisca muelleri — GANS 2005: 29 |
| Distribution | Ghana, Togo Type locality: ‘‘Akropong’’, Ghana. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Lectotype: NMBA 3808, designated by GANS 2005, based on illustrated specimen (but cited as such in KRAMER 1979); Lectoparatype: NMBA 3807; lectoparatype from ‘‘Sierra Leone’’: SMNS 388. |
| Diagnosis | DIAGNOSIS: First preocular supralabial, nasal, preocular, and prefrontal fused, with a blind suture entering fused shield from anterior corner of distinct second preocular supralabial. Ocular discrete, pentagonal, diagonally placed. A small median azygous shield. Frontals relatively small. Parietal either fused with frontal or with enormous temporal. Two pairs of small distinct occipitals. Very large first postocular supralabial kept from contact with frontal by enormous postocular (-temporal) that may have azygous contact with the midline and both first and second dorsal half-annulus. 1 or 2 temporals lie dorsal to first and second postsupralabials. 3 supralabials and 2 infralabials. Snout generally pointed, preocular region swollen. Mental flanked by enormous first infralabials. One row of 4 or 5 small postgenials anterior to and a second row of 4-6 postgenials between enlarged malars. 220-237 body annuli; 22-26 caudal annuli. Midbody segments, 11-15 dorsal, 10-13 ventral. Median ventral segments enlarged, paired. 10-12 round precloacal pores. Autotomy site at the 6th to 8th caudal annulus. (Gans 1987: 55) |
| Comment | A record from Sierra Leone is probably in error (See GANS 1987) |
| Etymology | named after Friedrich Müller (1834-1895), a friend and colleague of G.A. Boulenger, who worked as physician and zoologist in Basel who originally described this species (1878) as “Cynisca sp. ?” |
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