Cynisca senegalensis GANS, 1987

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Higher Taxa	Amphisbaenidae, Amphisbaenia, Lacertoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Cynisca senegalensis GANS 1987: 65 Cynisca senegalensis — GANS 2005: 29 Cynisca senegalensis — TRAPE 2014
Distribution	Senegal, Guinea (Conakry) Type locality: Parc Niokolo-Koba, Sénègal.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: IFAN (unnumbered).
Diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS: Preocular supralabials fused with nasals, but excluded from contact on the dorsal midline by paired "prefrontals" that have broad contact with the rostral. 2 supralabials and 2 infralabials. Mental wide and larger than flanking first infralabials; malars and second infralabials very slightly enlarged. Head bulbous. 278 body annuli; 23 caudal annuli. Midbody segments, 14 dorsal, 7 to 8 ventral. Segments of median ventral row azygous and more than 4 times as wide as long. 9 precloacal pores. Autotomy site at the 7th caudal annulus. (Gans 1987: 65) Additional details (5318 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
Etymology	Named after the type locality.
References	Gans C 1987. Studies on amphisbaenians (Reptilia). 7. The small round-headed species (Cynisca) from western Africa. American Museum Novitates (2896): 1-84 - 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 Trape, J.F. 2014. Un reptile nouveau du genre Cynisca Gray, 1844, au Sénégal (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae). Bull. Soc. Herp. France 151: 11-20. Trape, J.F.; Mané, Y. 2015. Note sur une collection d’amphisbènes (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae) d’Afrique occidentale. Bull. Soc. Herp. France 154 : 35-60
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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