Zygaspis quadrifrons (Peters, 1862)

Baptista, Ninda L., António, Telmo & Branch, William R., 2019, The herpetofauna of Bicuar National Park and surroundings, southwestern Angola: a preliminary checklist, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 203) 13 (2), pp. 96-130 : 113

Zygaspis quadrifrons (Peters, 1862)

Kalahari Round-snouted Worm Lizard ( Fig. 15 )

Material: One unlabelled and bleached specimen in Carmira Farm’s private collection.

Comment: This specimen conforms morphologically to Z. quadrifrons ( Broadley and Broadley 1997) . For many years, the species was known from Angola only from Monard’s (1931) description of Amphisbaena ambuellensis from ‘Chimporo’ (= Tchimpolo), which was subsequently synonymized with A. quadrifrons by Loveridge (1941) and later transferred to Zygaspis by Alexander and Gans (1966). No additional Angolan material was collected until recent surveys in southeastern Angola ( Conradie et al. 2016) and BNP (Butler et

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Fig. 15. Zygaspis quadrifrons, Carmira Farm.