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Chirindia rondoensis (LOVERIDGE, 1941)

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Higher TaxaAmphisbaenidae, Amphisbaenia, Lacertoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Nchingidi Worm Lizard 
SynonymAmphisbaena rondoensis LOVERIDGE 1941: 394
Amphisbaena (Cynisca) newalaensis LOVERIDGE 1962
Chirindia rondoensis — GANS 1967
Chirindia rondoensis — GANS & RHODES 1967
Chirindia rondoensis — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 19
Chirindia rondoensis — GANS 2005: 27
Chirindia rondoensis — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 322 
DistributionS Tanzania (Makonde and Rondo plateaus)

Type locality: Nchingidi, Rondo Plateau, Lindi District, Tanzania.

Type locality: Newala, Southern Province, Tanzania [newalensis]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 47951. Paratypes: AMNH 64274, 64275; BMNH 1947.3.1.6, 1947.3.1.7; CNHM = FMNH 73372 (according to Marx, 1958: 452); MCZ 47952–47999, INHS (= UIMNH) 41495; UMMZ 86367 (two specimens) (J.A. Peters, 1952: 25).
Holotype: MCZ 67005 [newalaensis] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Nearly related to A. ewerbecki (Werner) from which it differs in invariably possessing 10 dorsal and 10 ventral segments in a midbody annulus, 227-247 annuli on body and 24-28 on tail. Native name. Livilurilu (Kimera). (Loveridge 1941: 394)


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Comment 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
  • 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, ARTHUR 1941. Revision of the African lizards of the family Amphisbaenidae. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 87: 353-451. - get paper here
  • Loveridge,A. 1962. New worm-lizards (Ancylocrcinium and Amphisbaena) from southeastern Tanganyika Territory. Breviora (163): 1-6 - get paper here
  • Rosenberg, Herbert I. 1967. Hemipenial morphology of some Amphisbaenids (Amphisbaenia: Reptilia). Copeia 1967 (2): 349-361 - 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
 
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