Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea
Author
Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto
Author
Calvo-Revuelta, Marta
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Author
Riva, Ignacio De La
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-11-03
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Mochlus fernandi
(
Burton, 1836
)
Figure 12A
Tiliqua fernandi
Burton, 1836: 62
.
Type
locality: “Fernando Po” (
Bioko
,
Equatorial Guinea
).
Tiliqua nigriceps
Kramer, 1979: 164
.
Type
locality: “Goldküste”,
Gold Coast
=
Ghana
.
Lygosoma fernandi
(
Burton, 1836
)
:
Boulenger 1887: 304
.
Lepidothyris fernandi
(
Burton, 1836
)
:
Cope 1892a: 233
.
Riopa fernandi
(
Burton, 1836
)
: Loveridge 1936: 71.
Mochlus fernandi
(
Burton, 1836
)
:
Mittleman 1952: 9
.
Plestiodon harlani
Hallowell, 1845: 170
.
Type
locality: “
Liberia
,
West
coast of
Africa
”.
Distribution
. It extends from
Sierra Leone
in West Africa to
Cameroon
and
Gabon
in Central Africa. In
Equatorial Guinea
it has been recorded in Bioko (
Burton 1836
;
Boulenger 1887
) at Natividad (Hacienda Natividad) (
Bocage 1895
a
, 1903), Punta Frailes (
Boulenger 1906
), Musola (
Mertens 1941
) and San Carlos (
Mertens 1964a
) (
Map 12C
).
Comments.
Wagner
et al.
(2009c)
revised this species and their relatives as part of the “
Lygosoma fernandi
species group” and designated a
neotype
(of
Tiliqua fernandi
Burton, 1836
) from San Carlos, Bioko. This specimen, the current
neotype
, was previously recorded by Mertens (1964). It was included in the genus
Mochlus
by
Freitas
et al.
(2019)
while they synonymized the genus
Lepidothyris
Cope, 1892
with
Mochlus
. There are currently two recognized subspecies,
M. fernandi harlani
(
Hallowell, 1844
)
from West Africa (from
Sierra Leone
to
Ghana
) and the nominal one from West-Central Africa (from
Nigeria
to
Gabon
) (
Wagner
et al.
2009c
). We provide the only known record of
M. fernandi
for
Río Muni
, specifically at the airport of Bata. The other records of the genus
Mochlus
in
Río Muni
correspond to
M. striatus
.
Specimens examined.
Two
specimens.
Bioko
:
Moka
(
EBD
22170).
Río Muni
:
Bata Airport
,
9 November 1966
(
EBD 2841
)
.