Checklist And Bibliography Of The Amphisbaenia Of The World
Author
GANS, CARL
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
2005
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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
.