Chirindia langi FITZSIMONS, 1939
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Higher Taxa | Amphisbaenidae, Amphisbaenia, Lacertoidea, Squamata |
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’’.
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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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- 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
- 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 - get paper here
- 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
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