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Marques
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Marques
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had placed
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in its synonymy and considered the species to occur in the Angolan plateau. We hereby follow this interpretation, as morphological analysis of the specimen proved inconclusive due to its poor conservation state. We were unable to properly review the characters that both
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and
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used to distinguish
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in their revisions of the genus.
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Adalsteinsson
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in a more recent review of the
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in a new tribe (
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Marques
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2018
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). In addition, the authors also designated a new genus,
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, to which they allocated the former “
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” group species of
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<emphasis id="0ADA982CFFC3FFCE1520FCB9FC2D5A49" box="[864,1023,792,818]" italics="true" pageId="27" pageNumber="28">Leptotyphlops</emphasis>
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that
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had previously defined. The new genus is known from
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, including
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. An integrative taxonomic revision is much needed to address the current difficulties of the group.
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