Chirindia ewerbecki WERNER, 1910

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Higher Taxa	Amphisbaenidae, Amphisbaenia, Lacertoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies	Chirindia ewerbecki ewerbecki WERNER 1910 Chirindia ewerbecki nanguruwensis (LOVERIDGE 1962)
Common Names	E: Mbanja Worm Lizard Local name: Mbitu (Kimakonde)
Synonym	Chirindia 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
Distribution	Tanzania 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]
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: ZMH (Hamburg); destroyed (fide GANS 2005) Syntype: MCZ 67010 [nanguruwensis]
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2158 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Key: Werner 1910 provides a key to the Monopeltis and African Amphisbaena species known at the time.
Etymology	Named 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).
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
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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