Chirindia ewerbecki Werner

GANS, CARL, 2005, Checklist And Bibliography Of The Amphisbaenia Of The World, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2005 (289), pp. 1-130 : 26

Chirindia ewerbecki Werner

Chirindia ewerbecki Werner, 1910b: 37 . TYPE LO­ CALITY: ‘‘ Banja, 3 Stunden nördlich von Lindi, Deutsch­Ostafrika, an einer Meeresbucht. Boden schwarzsandig, nicht frei von Salz. ’’ = Mbanja, 10 miles north of Lindi, Tanzania ( Loveridge, 1941: 393). Holotype: Formerly in the Zoologisches Museum in Hamburg ; destroyed.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Loveridge (1941: 392, [1942] 1943, 1962: 4) and Gans and Rhodes (1967). See also Broadley and Howell (1991, distribution), and Zangerl (1944, skull; 1945, postcranial skeleton).

RANGE: Coastal Southern Province, Tanzania.