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<mods:title>Exploration into the hidden world of Mozambique's sky island forests: new discoveries of reptiles and amphibians</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Conradie, Werner</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>Port Elizabeth Museum (Bayworld), P. O. Box 13147, Humewood 6013, South Africa & South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, P / Bag 1015, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Bittencourt-Silva, Gabriela B.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>University of Basel, Biogeography Research Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Basel 4056, Switzerland</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Engelbrecht, Hanlie M.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X 7, Claremont, 7735, South Africa & Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Matieland 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Loader, Simon P.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>University of Roehampton, Department of Life Sciences, London, SW 15 4 JD, United Kingdom</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Menegon, Michele</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Nanvonamuquitxo, Cristovao</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>Faculty of Natural Sciences, Lurio University, Pemba, 958, Mozambique</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Scott, Michael</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>Khangela Safaris, www. khangelasafaris. com, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Tolley, Krystal A.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>South African National Biodiversity Institute, Private Bag X 7, Claremont, 7735, South Africa & Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Matieland 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa</mods:affiliation>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="182236969" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:60D06BDE68C054868B827B27A0B2F17B" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/60D06BDE68C054868B827B27A0B2F17B" lastPageNumber="171" pageId="8" pageNumber="171">
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<taxonomicName LSID="60D06BDE-68C0-5486-8B82-7B27A0B2F17B" authority="(Guenther, 1873)" baseAuthorityName="Guenther" baseAuthorityYear="1873" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Melanoseps" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melanoseps ater" order="Squamata" pageId="8" pageNumber="171" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ater">
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Melanoseps cf. ater (
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, 1873)
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="171">Material</paragraph>
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<materialsCitation accessionNumber="R21126, R21127" collectingDate="2016-01-01" collectingDateMax="2016-12-31" collectingDateMin="2016-01-01" location="Mt. Mabu" specimenCount="1">
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<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:60D06BDE68C054868B827B27A0B2F17B:76F898422842BCBE5877428191B95A1B" name="Mt. Mabu">Mt. Mabu</location>
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(PEM
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<accessionNumber httpUri="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucleotide/R21126">R21126</accessionNumber>
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, 93 mm SVL,
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<quantity metricMagnitude="-2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.86" unit="mm" value="28.6">28.6 mm</quantity>
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TL; PEM
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<accessionNumber httpUri="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucleotide/R21127">R21127</accessionNumber>
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, 121 SVL,
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<quantity metricMagnitude="-2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="3.9899999999999998" unit="mm" value="39.9">39.9 mm</quantity>
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TL)
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="171">Comments</paragraph>
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<bibRefCitation author="Broadley, DG" journalOrPublisher="African Journal of Herpetology" pageId="10" pageNumber="173" pagination="95 - 112" publicationUrl="10.1080/21564574.2006.9635543" refId="B23" refString="Broadley, DG, Whiting, SA, Bauer, AM, 2006. A revision of East Africa species of Melanoseps Boulenger (Sauria: Scincidae: Feylininae). African Journal of Herpetology 55: 95 - 112, DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2006.9635543" title="A revision of East Africa species of Melanoseps Boulenger (Sauria: Scincidae: Feylininae)." url="10.1080/21564574.2006.9635543" volume="55" year="2006">Broadley et al. (2006)</bibRefCitation>
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assigned the northern Mozambique specimens to
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<taxonomicName class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Melanoseps" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melanoseps loveridgei" order="Squamata" pageId="8" pageNumber="171" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="loveridgei">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="171">Melanoseps loveridgei</emphasis>
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, while specimens from southern Malawi are referred to as
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<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Guenther" baseAuthorityYear="1873" class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Melanoseps" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melanoseps ater" order="Squamata" pageId="8" pageNumber="171" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ater">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="171">Melanoseps ater</emphasis>
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. We used the key from
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<bibRefCitation author="Broadley, DG" journalOrPublisher="African Journal of Herpetology" pageId="10" pageNumber="173" pagination="95 - 112" publicationUrl="10.1080/21564574.2006.9635543" refId="B23" refString="Broadley, DG, Whiting, SA, Bauer, AM, 2006. A revision of East Africa species of Melanoseps Boulenger (Sauria: Scincidae: Feylininae). African Journal of Herpetology 55: 95 - 112, DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2006.9635543" title="A revision of East Africa species of Melanoseps Boulenger (Sauria: Scincidae: Feylininae)." url="10.1080/21564574.2006.9635543" volume="55" year="2006">Broadley et al. (2006)</bibRefCitation>
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to identify the specimens based on number mid-body scale rows (24).
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<bibRefCitation author="Timberlake, JR" journalOrPublisher="Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London" pageId="10" pageNumber="173" publicationUrl="http://www.kew.org/sites/default/files/kppcont_067897.pdf" refId="B69" refString="Timberlake, JR, Bayliss, J, Dowsett-Lemaire, F, Conghan, C, Branch, WR, Collins, S, Curran, M, Dowsett, RJ, Fishpool, L, Francisco, J, Harris, T, Kopp, M, de Sousa, C, 2012. Mt. Mabu, Mozambique: Biodiversity and Conservation. In: Report produced under the Darwin Initiative Award 15/036. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, http://www.kew.org/sites/default/files/kppcont_067897.pdf" title="Mt. Mabu, Mozambique: Biodiversity and Conservation." url="http://www.kew.org/sites/default/files/kppcont_067897.pdf" volumeTitle="Report produced under the Darwin Initiative Award 15 / 036." year="2012">Timberlake et al. (2012)</bibRefCitation>
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were the first to report this species from Mt. Mabu and this was only the second record for this genus in Mozambique.
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<bibRefCitation author="Farooq, HOM" journalOrPublisher="Herpetology Notes" pageId="10" pageNumber="173" pagination="59 - 62" refId="B38" refString="Farooq, HOM, Conradie, W, 2015. A second record of Scolecomorphus kirkii Boulenger, 1883 (Gymnophiona: Scolecomorphidae) for Mozambique. Herpetology Notes 8: 59 - 62" title="A second record of Scolecomorphus kirkii Boulenger, 1883 (Gymnophiona: Scolecomorphidae) for Mozambique." volume="8" year="2015">Farooq and Conradie (2015)</bibRefCitation>
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recorded
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<taxonomicName class="Reptilia" family="Scincidae" genus="Melanoseps" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Melanoseps loveridgei" order="Squamata" pageId="8" pageNumber="171" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="loveridgei">Melanoseps cf. loveridgei</taxonomicName>
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from Mt. Namuli. This identification was tentative, as material got lost in a motor vehicle accident and could not be examined. Based on the close proximity to Mt. Mabu the Mt. Namuli record should be regarded as
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