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 capensis A. Smith Monopeltis capensis A. Smith, 1848 (1834– 1849): pl. 67. TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘24 ° lat. S’’, South Africa ; corrected to ‘‘ southwestern Transvaal’ ’ (Broadley et at., 1976). Syntypes : BMNH 65.5.5.179: RR1946.8.31.87, RR­ 1946.8.31.96 (see FitzSimons, 1937a: 267) . DISCUSSION OF FORM: Loveridge (1941: 423) , FitzSimons (1943: 391), Broadley (1962: 823), and Broadley et al. (1976: 385– 388). See also Auerbach (1985, 1987, distribution), Barry (1963, tympanum), Bates (1996, distribution), Bellairs and Boyd (1947, anatomy), Branch (1988a, identification), Broadley (1971a, 1973, 1997c), Broadley and Blake (1979, distribution), De Waal (1978, distribution), Flower (1925, longevity), Haacke (1984, distribution), Huang and Gans (1971, chromosomes), Hughes (1988, longevity), Kritzinger (1946, skull), Lambiris (1993, 1994, list), Mertens (1971 , distribu­ tion), Visser (1967, reproduction), and Zangerl (1944, skull; 1945, postcranial skeleton). RANGE: Southwestern Botswana and central regions of South Africa .