Monopeltis mauricei PARKER, 1935

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Higher Taxa	Amphisbaenidae, Amphisbaenia, Lacertoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Maurice’s Slender Worm Lizard, Maurice’s Spade-snouted Worm Lizard
Synonym	Monopeltis mauricei PARKER 1935: 582 Monopeltis ocularis FITZSIMONS 1941: 277 Monopeltis mauricei — LOVERIDGE 1941: 408 Monopeltis ocularis — FITZSIMONS 1943: 390 Monopeltis mauricei — FITZSIMONS 1943: 400 Monopeltis ocularis — FITZSIMONS & BRAIN 1958 Monopeltis ocularis — BROADLEY 1962 Monopeltis sphenorhynchus mauricei — AUERBACH 1987: 140 Monopeltis sphenorhynchus mauricei — BROADLEY 1992 Monopeltis mauricei — BATES et al. 2014: 155 Monopeltis mauricei — BOURQUIN & GRUENER 2017 Monopeltis mauricei — PIETERSEN et al. 2021
Distribution	Botswana (Serowe), Namibia, Republic of South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe Type locality: “Monjalatsela, near Ghanzi, Bechuanaland”.
Reproduction
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1933.9.9.14, female
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Comment	Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species.
Etymology	Named after J. Maurice, Esq., who presented the type to the British Museum.
References	Auerbach, R.D. 1987. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Botswana. Mokwepa Consultants, Botswana, 295 pp. 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. BOURQUIN, O. & V. GRUENER 2017. A NOTE ON THE HERPETOFAUNA OF MODISA CAMP (BOTSWANA) AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. African Herp News (64): 9-26 - get paper here Broadley, D G 1992. Amphisbaenia. Amphisbaenidae. Monopeltis sphenorhynchus mauricei Parker 1935. J. Herp. Assoc. Africa 41: 39 - get paper here Broadley, D.G. 1962. On some reptile collections from the North-Western and North-Eastern Districts of Southern Rhodesia 1958-1961, with descriptions of four new lizards. Occ. Pap. Nat. Mus. South. Rhodesia 26 (B): 787-843 FitzSimons, V.F. 1943. The lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoir No.1 (Pretoria), 528 pp. Fitzsimons, V.F.M.; Brain, C.K. 1958. A Short account of the Reptiles of the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park. Koedoe, 1(1): 99-104 - get paper here Fitzsimons,V.F.M. 1941. Descriptions of some new lizards from South Africa and a frog from southern Rhodesia. Annals Transvaal Mus. 20 (3): 273-281 - get paper here Loveridge, ARTHUR 1941. Revision of the African lizards of the family Amphisbaenidae. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 87: 353-451. - get paper here Parker, HAMPTON WILDMAN 1935. A new species of amphisbaenid lizard from Bechuanaland. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (10) 15: 582-583. - get paper here Pietersen, Darren, Verburgt, Luke & Davies, John 2021. Snakes and other reptiles of Zambia and Malawi. Struik Nature / Penguin Random House South Africa, 376 pp., ISBN 9781775847373 Tolley, K.A., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D.W., Weeber, J., Burger, M. & Alexander, G.J. (eds) 2023. Conservation status of the reptiles of South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho. Suricata 10. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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