Chirindia langi FITZSIMONS, 1939

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Higher Taxa	Amphisbaenidae, Amphisbaenia, Lacertoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies	Chirindia langi langi (FITZSIMONS) 1939 Chirindia langi occidentalis JACOBSEN 1984
Common Names	E: Lang's Worm Lizard
Synonym	Chirindia langi FITZSIMONS 1939 Amphisbaena langi — LOVERISGE 1941: 8 Amphisbaena langi — FITZSIMONS 1943: 381 Chirindia langi — GANS 2005: 26 Chirindia langi — BATES et al. 2014: 149 Chirindia langi occidentalis JACOBSEN 1984 Chirindia langi occidentalis — BATES et al. 2014: 150
Distribution	Republic of South Africa (NE Transvaal), SE Zimbabwe, C Mozambique Type locality: ‘‘Punda Maira (5 Punda Milia), northeastern Transvaal’’.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: DNMNH (= TM) (= TMP) 19197. Paratype: TMP 19198 (Transvaal Museum) Holotype: DNMNH (= TM) 55241. Paratypes: DNMNH (= TM) (TMP) [occidentalis]
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Etymology	Named after Herbert Lang (1879-1957), a German taxidermist who worked in the Natural History Museum, Universitat Zurich, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Transvaal Museum, South Africa. He traveled widely in Africa.
References	Bates, M.F.; Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M.; Burger, M., Marais, J.; Alexander, G.J. & de Villliers, M.S. (eds.) 2014. Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 512 pp. 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 FitzSimons, V.F. 1943. The lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoir No.1 (Pretoria), 528 pp. Fitzsimons,V.F.M. 1939. Descriptions of some new species and subspecies of lizards from South Africa. Annals Transvaal Mus. 20 (1): 5-16 Gans, C. 2005. CHECKLIST AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE AMPHISBAENIA OF THE WORLD. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 289: 1-130 - get paper here Jacobsen N H G 1984. A new subspecies of Chirindia langi (Reptilia: Amphisbaenia) from southern Africa, with notes on the ecology of the species. Annals Transvaal Museum 33 (26): 391-398 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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