Monopeltis leonhardi 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 : 36

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090(2005)289<0001:CABOTA>2.0.CO;2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5457453
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scientific name	Monopeltis leonhardi Werner
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Monopeltis leonhardi Werner, 1910a: 328 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘ Kalahari , zwischen Kgokong und Kang’ ’, Botswana. Holotype: ZMB 23201.

Monopeltis vernayi FitzSimons, 1932: 36 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘ Gomodimo , Central Kalahari’ ’, Botswana. Holotype: TMP 14468.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Loveridge (1941: 410) considered this species a synonym of Monopeltis anchietae , and FitzSimons (1943: 398) retained it as a separate species. See also Auerbach (1987, distribution), Branch (1988a), Broadley and Blake (1979, distribution), Broadley et al. (1976, variation), Fitzsimons and Brain (1958, distribution), Haacke (1984), Joubert (1977, distribution), and Pienaar et al. (1983).

RANGE: Botswana, Kalahari, and areas immediately adjoining.