Nadzikambia baylissi Branch & Tolley, 2010

Conradie, Werner, Bittencourt-Silva, Gabriela B., Engelbrecht, Hanlie M., Loader, Simon P., Menegon, Michele, Nanvonamuquitxo, Cristovao, Scott, Michael & Tolley, Krystal A., 2016, Exploration into the hidden world of Mozambique's sky island forests: new discoveries of reptiles and amphibians, Zoosystematics and Evolution 92 (2), pp. 163-180 : 169-170

Nadzikambia baylissi Branch & Tolley, 2010

Material

Mt. Mabu ( PEM R21128 , male, 73.7 mm SVL; PEM R21129 , female, 64.8 mm SVL; PEM R21130 , female, 66.4 mm SVL; PEM R21131 , male, 68.3 mm SVL; PEM R21132 , female, 57.9 mm SVL), Mt. Namuli ( PEM R21164 ; female, 79.9 mm SVL; PEM R21165 , male, 71.4 mm SVL; PEM R21166 , female, 75.5 mm SVL; PEM R21167 , female, 79.3 mm SVL; PEM R21188 , female, 74.3 mm SVL; PEM R21189 , female, 72.0 mm SVL; PEM R21190 , female, 80.1 mm SVL) .

Comments

Collected from canopy forest, in Afromontane forest above 600 m asl. Historically, Nadzikambia was considered a monotypic genus endemic to Mt. Mulanje ( Broadley 1965a), but recently Branch and Tolley (2010) described a second species from Mt. Mabu. We here report the first record for Mt. Namuli (Fig. 4A ).

Figures

Figure 4. A selection of reptiles from northern Mozambique inselbergs. A - Nadzikambia baylissi (Mt. Namuli, PEM R 21165), B - Rhampholeon tilburyi (Mt. Namuli, PEM R 21157), C - Rhampholeon sp. (Mt. M'paluwe, PEM R 21209), D - Lygodactylus cf. rex (Mt. Mabu, PEM R 21147), E - Holaspis laevis (Mt. Mabu, PEM R 21146), F - Dipsadoboa cf. shrevei shrevei (Mt. Mabu, PEM R 21123), G - Duberria shirana (Mt. Namuli, PEM R 21184), H - Psammophylax variabilis (Mt. Namuli, PEM R 21186).