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<mods:namePart>Conradie, Werner</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Bittencourt-Silva, Gabriela B.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>University of Basel, Biogeography Research Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Basel 4056, Switzerland</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Engelbrecht, Hanlie M.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Loader, Simon P.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Menegon, Michele</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Nanvonamuquitxo, Cristovao</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Scott, Michael</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Tolley, Krystal A.</mods:namePart>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="182236946" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:DD9ED438326D57D4B9A59DE074C37FAF" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/DD9ED438326D57D4B9A59DE074C37FAF" lastPageNumber="169" pageId="6" pageNumber="169">
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<taxonomicName LSID="DD9ED438-326D-57D4-B9A5-9DE074C37FAF" authority="Boulenger, 1883" authorityName="Boulenger" authorityYear="1883" class="Reptilia" family="Scolecomorphidae" genus="Scolecomorphus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Scolecomorphus kirkii" order="Gymnophiona" pageId="6" pageNumber="169" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="kirkii">Scolecomorphus cf. kirkii Boulenger, 1883</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="169">Material</paragraph>
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<materialsCitation accessionNumber="A11248" collectingDate="2016-01-01" collectingDateMax="2016-12-31" collectingDateMin="2016-01-01" location="Mt. Mabu" specimenCount="1">
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<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:DD9ED438326D57D4B9A59DE074C37FAF:F876383624798AE34277B92650CDB9D1" name="Mt. Mabu">Mt. Mabu</location>
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<paragraph pageId="6" pageNumber="169">Comments</paragraph>
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A single specimen was found under a log in the closed canopy forest of Mt. Mabu after 36 hours of heavy rain (Fig.
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. A selection of amphibians from northern Mozambique inselbergs. A - Arthroleptis francei (Mt. Namuli, PEM A 11303), B - Arthroleptis xenodactyloides (Mt. Mabu), C - Arthroleptis stenodactylus (Mt. Mabu), D - Amietia delalandii (Mt. Namuli, PEM A 11319), E - Nothophryne cf. broadleyi (Mt. M'paluwe, PEM A 11370), F - Nothophryne cf. broadleyi (Mt. Namuli), G - Strongylopus cf. fuelleborni (Mt. Mabu, PEM A 11184), H - Scolecomorphus cf. kirkii (Mt. Mabu, PEM A 11248)." figureDoi="10.3897/zse.92.9948.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/104227" pageId="6" pageNumber="169">3H</figureCitation>
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). The specimen (probably a young female) measures 210 mm total length, 6.3 mm body width and has 142 primary annuli. The olive-brown dorsal colouration of the preserved specimen is dorsally restricted and the venter is light yellowish (pinkish in life), agreeing with the description of
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<bibRefCitation author="Nussbaum, RA" journalOrPublisher="Occasional Papers of the Museum Zoology, University of Michigan" pageId="10" pageNumber="173" pagination="1 - 49" refId="B49" refString="Nussbaum, RA, 1985. Systematics of caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) of the family Scolecomorphidae. Occasional Papers of the Museum Zoology, University of Michigan 713: 1 - 49" title="Systematics of caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) of the family Scolecomorphidae." volume="713" year="1985">Nussbaum (1985)</bibRefCitation>
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. This new record represents the southernmost distribution of
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Boulenger" authorityYear="1883" class="Reptilia" family="Scolecomorphidae" genus="Scolecomorphus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Scolecomorphus kirkii" order="Gymnophiona" pageId="6" pageNumber="169" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="kirkii">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="169">Scolecomorphus kirkii</emphasis>
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, and for all African caecilians.
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<bibRefCitation author="Branch, WR" journalOrPublisher="Biodiversity Foundation of Africa, Bulawayo" pageId="10" pageNumber="173" refId="B8" refString="Branch, WR, 2004. Herpetological survey of the Niassa Game Reserve. In: Technical report prepared for Sociedade para a Gestao e Desenvolvimento da Reserva do Niassa Mocambique." title="Herpetological survey of the Niassa Game Reserve." volumeTitle="Technical report prepared for Sociedade para a Gestao e Desenvolvimento da Reserva do Niassa Mocambique." year="2004">Branch (2004)</bibRefCitation>
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reported the first ever caecilian record for Mozambique from dry transitional miombo vegetation at the edge of Serra Mecula, while
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<bibRefCitation author="Farooq, HOM" journalOrPublisher="Herpetology Notes" pageId="10" pageNumber="173" pagination="59 - 62" refId="B38" refString="Farooq, HOM, Conradie, W, 2015. A second record of Scolecomorphus kirkii Boulenger, 1883 (Gymnophiona: Scolecomorphidae) for Mozambique. Herpetology Notes 8: 59 - 62" title="A second record of Scolecomorphus kirkii Boulenger, 1883 (Gymnophiona: Scolecomorphidae) for Mozambique." volume="8" year="2015">Farooq and Conradie (2015)</bibRefCitation>
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recorded a second record from Mt. Namuli.
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