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Cynisca leonina (MÜLLER, 1885)

IUCN Red List - Cynisca leonina - Vulnerable, VU

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Higher TaxaAmphisbaenidae, Amphisbaenia, Lacertoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Los Archipelago Worm Lizard 
SynonymAmphisbaena leonina MÜLLER 1885: 700
Cynisca leonina — KRAMER 1979
Cynisca leonina — GANS 1987: 46
Cynisca leonina — GANS 2005: 28 
DistributionGuinea-Bissau (Tumbo and Kassa islands, Los Archipelago), Guinea

Type locality: ‘‘Tumbo Insel,’’ Los Archipelago, Guinea.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: NMBA 3806. 
DiagnosisDIAGNOSIS: Preocular supralabials, nasal, preocular, and prefrontal fused, with a blind suture entering fused shield from anterior corner of ocular. Ocular discrete (quadratic, diagonally placed). A small median azygous shield. Frontal and parietal fused (relatively small). Occipital distinct. Enormous first postocular supralabial contacts frontal-parietal. Large temporal lies dorsal to first and second postsupralabials. Snout generally pointed. 2 supralabials and 2 infralabials. Mental and first infralabials enormous. No true postmental, rather an enlarged median segment in the first postgenial row followed by two small segments in a second row, both TOWS flanked by elongate segments between the enlarged malars. 233-243 body annuli; 18-19 caudal annuli. Midbody segments, 14 dorsal, 10 ventral. Median ventral segments enlarged, paired. 7-8 round precloacal pores. Autotomy site at the 6th to 7th caudal annulus. (Gans 1987: 46) 
Comment 
References
  • Gans, C. 2005. CHECKLIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE AMPHISBAENIA OF THE WORLD. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 289: 1-130 - get paper here
  • Kramer, Eugen 1979. Typenkatalog der Echsen im Naturhistorischen Museum Basel (BM), Stand 1978. [type catalogue] Revue Suisse de Zoologie 86 (1): 159-166 - get paper here
  • Müller,F. 1885. Vierter Nachtrag zum Katalog der herpetologischen Sammlung des Basler Museums. Verh. naturf. Ges. Basel 7: 668-717 - get paper here
  • Trape, J.F.; Mané, Y. 2015. Note sur une collection d’amphisbènes (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae) d’Afrique occidentale. Bull. Soc. Herp. France 154 : 35-60
 
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