Dalophia welwitschii GRAY, 1865

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Higher Taxa	Amphisbaenidae, Amphisbaenia, Lacertoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Dalophia welwitschii GRAY 1865 Monopeltis welwitschii — BOULENGER 1885: 456 Monopeltis welwitschii — BOCAGE 1895: 29 Monopeltis welwitschii — FRANK & RAMUS 1995 Monopeltis welwitschii — GANS 2005: 38 Monopeltis welwitschii — MARQUES et al. 2018 Dalophia welwitschii — BRANCH et al. 2019
Distribution	Angola Type locality: ‘‘Angola; Pungo Andongo’’.
Reproduction
Types	Syntypes: BMNH 64.7.13.34:R1946.8.20.89, 64.7.13.35: RR1946.8.20.90
Diagnosis	Diagnosis (genus). Very similar to Monopeltis, but nasal shields almost always separated by rostral segment, no precloacal pores, generally only a single cephalic shield, always a modified pectoral region, and tip of the tail always squarely truncate and produced into a flattened callous pad. Table 2 presents meristic differences for all but the northernmost populations. (Broadley et al. 1976, Modified after Vanzolini 1951)
Comment	This species is known from its type specimens only (GANS 2005). Type species: Dalophia welwitschii is the type species of the genus Dalophia Gray, 1865 (fide GANS 2005) although he lists this species as a member of the genus Monopeltis. Technically, this implies that Dalophia is a synonym of Monopeltis, but nobody has apparently done a proper phylogenetic analysis to resolve this.
Etymology	Named after Dr. Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1806-1872), an Austrian theater critic before fleeing to Portugal to escape the consequences of a youthful indiscretion.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Bocage,J.V. du B. 1895. Herpétologie d'Angola et du Congo. Lisbon: Imprimerie Nationale, i-xx, 203 pp. - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 2, Second edition. London, xiii+497 pp. - get paper here Branch, William R.; Pedro Vaz Pinto, Ninda Baptista, and Werner Conradie 2019. The Reptiles of Angola: History, Diversity, Endemism and Hotspots. Chapter 13 in: B. J. Huntley et al. (eds.), Biodiversity of Angola. Springer Verlag, pp. 283-334 - get paper here Broadley, D.G., Gans,C. & Visser, J. 1976. Studies on Amphisbaenians. (6). The Genera Monopeltis and Dalophia in Southern Africa. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 157 (5): 311-486 - 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 Gray,J.E. 1865. A revision of the genera and species of amphisbaenians with the descriptions of some new species now in the collection of the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 16: 365-377 - get paper here Gray,J.E. 1865. A revision of the genera and species of amphisbaenians with the descriptions of some new species now in the collection of the British Museum. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1865: 442-455. - get paper here Laurent, R.F. 1947. Notes sur les Amphisbaenidae d'Afrique. Revue. Zool. Bot. Afr. Vol. 40: 52-63 Marques, Mariana P.; Luis M. P. Ceríaco , David C. Blackburn , and Aaron M. Bauer 2018. Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola -- Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840–2017). Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (Ser. 4) 65: 1-501 (Supplement II)
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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