Checklist And Bibliography Of The Amphisbaenia Of The World Author GANS, CARL text Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 2005-03-08 2005 289 1 130 http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0090(2005)289%3C0001%3ACABOTA%3E2.0.CO%3B2 journal article 10.1206/0003-0090(2005)289<0001:CABOTA>2.0.CO;2 0003-0090 5361528 Monopeltis galeata (Hallowell) Phractogonus galeatus Hallowell, 1852: 62 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘ Liberia , West Coast of Africa’’; corrected by Hallowell (1857: 50) to ‘‘Gaboon Country, West Africa’’. Lectotype : ANSP 9684 (K. Schmidt, 1919: 603 ). Lectoparatype: ANSP 9683; possibly also ANSP 9682, labeled ‘‘Corisco, W. Africa’’ (cf. K. Schmidt, 1919: 603 ). Monopeltis ( Phractogonus ) magnipartitus W.C.H. Peters, 1879: 276 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘ Angeblich von Gabun’ ’. Holotype : ZMB 7654 . Lepidosternum galeatum Strauch, 1881 : col. 121. Emendation. Lepidosternum dumerilii Strauch, 1881 : col. 122. TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘West­Afrika ( Gabon ).’’ Syntypes : MHNP 54–07, 5358, plus one specimen . Lepidosternon magnipartitum Strauch, 1881 : col. 124. Emendation. Monopeltis galeata G. Boulenger, 1885e: 457 . Emendation. Monopeltis magnipartita G. Boulenger, 1885e: 458 . Emendation. Monopeltis unirostralis Mocquard, 1903: 210 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘Gabon’’. Holotype : MHNP 01–532. Monopeltis boveei Mocquard, 1903: 211 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘Fernand Vaz ( Congo français )’’. Syntypes : MHNP 02–421, 02–422. DISCUSSION OF FORM: Loveridge (1941: 417) , Gans and Lehman (1973). RANGE: Gabon , Cameroon , Congo . Not listed by Broadley and Poynton (1998) for the Democratic Republic of the Congo .