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Chirindia mpwapwaensis

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Chirindia mpwapwaensis (Loveridge)

Amphisbaena mpwapwaensis Loveridge, 1932: 387. TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘Mpwapwa, Ugogo, Tanganyika Territory’’. Holotype: MCZ 30767. Paratype: MCZ 30768.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Loveridge (1941: 391) and Gans and Rhodes (1967). See also Broadley and Howell (1991, distribution), and Rosenberg (1967, hemipenes).

RANGE: Known from the types only.

Notes

Published as part of GANS, CARL, 2005, Checklist And Bibliography Of The Amphisbaenia Of The World, pp. 1-130 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (289) on page 27, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2005)289<0001:CABOTA>2.0.CO;2, http://zenodo.org/record/5361528

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Biodiversity

Family
Amphisbaenidae
Genus
Chirindia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Squamata
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Loveridge
Species
mpwapwaensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Chirindia mpwapwaensis (Loveridge, 1932) sec. GANS, 2005

References

  • Loveridge, A. 1932. New reptiles and amphibians from Tanganyika Territory and Kenya Colony. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 72 (10): 375 - 387. [p. 378]
  • Loveridge, A. 1941. Revision of the African lizards of the family Amphisbaenidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 87 (5): 353 - 451. [all]
  • Rosenberg, H. I. 1967. Hemipenial morphology of some amphisbaenids (Amphisbaenia: Reptilia). Copeia 1967 (2): 349 - 361. [all; Amphisbaena alba, A. caeca, A. camura, A. darwini, A. innocens, A. munoai, A. schmidti, A. vermicularis, Anops kingi, Chirindia mpwapwaensis, C. rondoensis, Leposternon microcephalum, L. rostratum]