Monopeltis galeata (Hallowell)

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 : 35

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Phractogonus galeatus Hallowell, 1852: 62 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘ Liberia, West Coast of Africa’’; corrected by Hallowell (1857: 50) to ‘‘Gaboon Country, West Africa’’. Lectotype: ANSP 9684 (K. Schmidt, 1919: 603). Lectoparatype: ANSP 9683; possibly also ANSP 9682, labeled ‘‘Corisco, W. Africa’’ (cf. K. Schmidt, 1919: 603).

Monopeltis (Phractogonus) magnipartitus W.C.H. Peters, 1879: 276 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘ Angeblich von Gabun’ ’. Holotype: ZMB 7654 View Materials .

Lepidosternum galeatum Strauch, 1881 : col. 121. Emendation.

Lepidosternum dumerilii Strauch, 1881 : col. 122. TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘WestAfrika ( Gabon).’’ Syntypes: MHNP 54–07, 5358, plus one specimen.

Lepidosternon magnipartitum Strauch, 1881 : col. 124. Emendation.

Monopeltis galeata G. Boulenger, 1885e: 457 . Emendation.

Monopeltis magnipartita G. Boulenger, 1885e: 458 . Emendation.

Monopeltis unirostralis Mocquard, 1903: 210 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘Gabon’’. Holotype: MHNP 01–532.

Monopeltis boveei Mocquard, 1903: 211 . TYPE LOCALITY: ‘‘Fernand Vaz ( Congo français)’’. Syntypes: MHNP 02–421, 02–422.

DISCUSSION OF FORM: Loveridge (1941: 417), Gans and Lehman (1973).

RANGE: Gabon, Cameroon, Congo. Not listed by Broadley and Poynton (1998) for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.