Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea Author Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto Author Calvo-Revuelta, Marta 0000-0002-8628-1055 Author Riva, Ignacio De La 0000-0001-5064-4507 albertosv@mncn.csic.es text Zootaxa 2022 2022-11-03 5202 1 1 197 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5202.1.1 journal article 182444 10.11646/zootaxa.5202.1.1 45ba25c1-47a9-4001-93d9-294815bf37e7 1175-5326 7285600 BF4831D2-D98B-4265-9138-03DB8607B826 Gastropholis echinata ( Cope, 1862 ) Figure 14C Lacerta ( Zootoca ) echinata Cope, 1862: 189 . Type locality: “West Africa”. Very likely Liberia according to Loveridge (1941) . Lacerta hirticauda Vaillant, 1884: 344 . Type locality: “Kinjabo” Kinjaho, Assini, Ghana . Lacerta langi Schmidt, 1919: 492 . Type locality: “Medje”, Democratic Republic of the Congo . Centromastix echinatus ( Cope, 1862 ) : Laurent 1958: 118 . Gastropholis echinata ( Cope, 1862 ) : Arnold 1989: 543 . MAPS 16 A–C. Distribution maps for Equatorial Guinean records of (A) Melanoseps poensis ; (B) Monopeltis galeata ; (C) Monopeltis jugularis . FIGURE 14. From left to right: dorsal, lateral and ventral views of the head of: Feylinia currori (A) (MNCN 23911), Monopeltis jugularis (B) (EBD 02842), and Gastropholis echinata (C) (MNCN 6231). Photos: AS-V. Distribution . West and Central Africa, from Liberia to the Northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo . In Equatorial Guinea it has been recorded in Río Muni at Benito River ( Boulenger 1921 ) and Bioko (Pérez del Val 2001 ) (but see comments) ( Map 17A ). Comments. Mertens (1964) did not include this species among the reptiles of Bioko. Later, Pérez del Val (2001) recorded a single specimen from the island (MNCN 6231). However, the collection locality of this specimen is tentative, and there are no recent confirmed records of this species in Bioko. In this sense, following Mertens (1964), we do not consider the presence of this species in Bioko. As this species inhabits the forest canopy, it is rarely observed and collected ( Arnold 1989 ). Future prospections should be made to detect the presence (and confirm the Biokoan record) of this elusive species in Equatorial Guinea . Specimens examined. One specimen. Equatorial Guinea , without specific locality (Bioko?) (MNCN 6231).