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Chirindia ewerbecki WERNER, 1910

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Higher TaxaAmphisbaenidae, Amphisbaenia, Lacertoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
SubspeciesChirindia ewerbecki ewerbecki WERNER 1910
Chirindia ewerbecki nanguruwensis (LOVERIDGE 1962) 
Common NamesE: Mbanja Worm Lizard
Local name: Mbitu (Kimakonde) 
SynonymChirindia ewerbecki WERNER 1910: 37
Chirindia ewerbecki — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 320

Chirindia ewerbecki nanguruwensis (LOVERIDGE) 1962
Amphisbaena (Cynisca) nanguruwensis LOVERIDGE 1962
Chirindia ewerbecki nanguruwensis — GANS & RHODES 1967
Chirindia ewerbecki nanguruwensis — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 20
Chirindia nanguruwensis — GANS 2005: 27

Chirindia ewerbecki ewerbecki WERNER 1910
Chirindia ewerbecki WERNER 1910: 37
Chirindia ewerbecki ewerbecki — BROADLEY & GANS 1967
Chirindia ewerbecki — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 19
Chirindia ewerbecki — GANS 2005: 26 
DistributionTanzania

nanguruwensis: Newala, Nanguruwe, Tanzania. Type locality: Nanguruwe, Mtwara District, Southern Province, Tanzania.

Type locality: “Banja, 3 Stunden nördlich von Lindi, Deutsch-Ostafrika, an einer Meeresbucht” [= Mbanja, near Lindi, Tanzania]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMH (Hamburg); destroyed (fide GANS 2005)
Syntype: MCZ 67010 [nanguruwensis] 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 2158 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentKey: Werner 1910 provides a key to the Monopeltis and African Amphisbaena species known at the time. 
EtymologyNamed after Karl Ewerbeck, District Officer and a customs official at Lindi, Tanganyika (Tanzania), when it was a German colony. He collected the lizard holotype (1903).

C. e. nanguruwensis was named after the type locality. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Broadley D G; Gans C 1978. Southern forms of Chirindia (Amphisbaenia, Reptilia). Annals of the Carnegie Museum 47 (3): 29-51 - get paper here
  • Broadley, D. G. & HOWELL, K. M. 1991. A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70
  • Gans, C. 2005. CHECKLIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE AMPHISBAENIA OF THE WORLD. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 289: 1-130 - get paper here
  • Gans, Carl; Rhodes, Charlyn 1967. Chirindia from Tanganyika (Amphibaenia, Reptilia). Annals of the Carnegie Museum 39 (1): 1-32 - get paper here
  • Loveridge,A. 1962. New worm-lizards (Ancylocrcinium and Amphisbaena) from southeastern Tanganyika Territory. Breviora (163): 1-6 - get paper here
  • Spawls, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. 2002. A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 pp. [reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147] - get paper here
  • Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon 2018. Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 pp. - get paper here
  • Werner,F. 1910. Über neue oder seltene Reptilien des Naturhistorischen Museums in Hamburg. ii. Eidechsen. Jahrb. Hamburg. Wiss. Anst., vol. 27 (1909), suppl. no. 2, 1910, pp. 1-46; reprinted: 1910, Mitteil. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, vol. 27: 205-) - get paper here
 
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