Panaspis mocamedensis CERÍACO, HEINICKE, PARKER, MARQUES & BAUER, 2020
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Panaspis mocamedensis
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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. |
| Comment | |
| Etymology | The specific epithet “mocamedensis” refers to the former name of Namibe Province (Moçâmedes), to which the species is apparently endemic. |
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