Holaspis ngalangi PARRINHA, MARQUES, GONÇALVES, TIUTENKO, BAUER & CERÍACO, 2025
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Holaspis ngalangi
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| Higher Taxa | Lacertidae, Eremiadinae, Sauria, Lacertoidea, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Synonym | Holaspis ngalangi PARRINHA, MARQUES, GONÇALVES, TIUTENKO, BAUER & CERÍACO 2025 Holaspis guentheri — FERREIRA 1897: 242 Holaspis guentheri — BOULENGER 1921: 377 [part] Holaspis guentheri — MONARD 1937: 73 Cordylosaurus subtessellatus [?] — MARQUES et al. 2018: 229 [part] |
| Distribution | Angola (Huila) Type locality: Caconda [georeferenced to -13.7371°, 15.0614°, 1674 m a.s.l.], Huíla Province, Angola. |
| Reproduction | |
| Types | Holotype: BMNH 1906.8.24.57, an adult female, collected by William John Ansorge on 28 December 1905 (Fig. 5). Paratype: BMNH 1906.8.24.56, an adult female with the same collecting data as the holotype (Fig. 6). |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis (n=3): Holaspis ngalangi sp. n. can be readily distin- guished from both of its congeners, H. guentheri and H. laevis, by the presence of an uninterrupted series of paired, transversely enlarged scales between the last row of ventral scales and anteriormost precloacal scale (versus last ventral scales and anteriormost precloacal scale separated by at least one row of small granular scales in H. guentheri and H. laevis; see Fig. 7); it can be further distinguished from H. laevis by having a pair of dorsolateral stripes (ver- sus only paravertebral and lateral stripes in H. laevis) and a pair of paravertebral stripes confined to enlarged dor- sal plates (versus paravertebral stripes not confined to en- larged dorsal plates in H. laevis). (Parrhinha et al. 2025) Additional details (5673 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
| Comment | Known only from three specimens collected in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Distribution: for a map see Parrinha et al. 2025: 64 (Fig. 8). |
| Etymology | Named after the the Ovimbundu Kingdom of Ngalangi, which dominated northern Huila Province and had its capital in present day Caconda. The Kingdom of Ngalangi was dismantled by the Portuguese during the Portuguese-Ovimbundu wars in the late 1760s. |
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