Matobosaurus maltzahni (De Grys, 1938)

Marques, Mariana P., Parrinha, Diogo, Lopes-Lima, Manuel, Tiutenko, Arthur, Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2024, An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola, ZooKeys 1201, pp. 167-217 : 167-217

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.1201.120750

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:23C7E6E7-AE73-4685-AEDA-26DEB0EE0068

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11196698

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4AFD24DB-3CB6-55A1-8FA3-5B7BB598D5CD

treatment provided by

ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Matobosaurus maltzahni (De Grys, 1938)
status

 

Matobosaurus maltzahni (De Grys, 1938) View in CoL

Fig. 8 a View Figure 8

Records.

N’Dolondolo [- 13.8133, 13.1362, 681 m] ( INBAC / AMB 10280); Rock outcrops near Catchi [- 13.7653, 13.2571, 1645 m] (MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001779); 2 km N of Maylowe [- 13.8280, 13.2625, 820 m] (MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001780).

Comments.

The species is known from the northwestern regions of Namibia to the southwestern regions of Angola, where it occurs in the western lowlands of Namibe and Benguela provinces and neighboring Huíla Province ( Marques et al. 2018). It occurs in a variety of micro-habitats, from rock outcrops to woodlands. The specimen MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001780 was found at night, sleeping inside a hollow trunk of a Mopane tree.

AMB

Asenovgrad Museum

MB

Universidade de Lisboa, Museu Bocage

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Gerrhosauridae

Genus

Matobosaurus