Limaformosa guirali ( Mocquard, 1887 )

Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto, Calvo-Revuelta, Marta & Riva, Ignacio De La, 2022, Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea, Zootaxa 5202 (1), pp. 1-197 : 116

Limaformosa guirali ( Mocquard, 1887)

Figure 29B

Heterolepis guirali Mocquard, 1887: 23 . Type locality: Niger and San-Benito, West Africa [may be Benito Point, Bendel State, South of Nigeria fide Wallach et al. (2014)].

Simocephalus baumanni Sternfeld, 1908b: 93 . Type locality: “ Togo ”.

Mehelya guirali ( Mocquard, 1887) : Lönnberg 1910.

Gonionotophis guirali ( Mocquard, 1887) : Kelly et al. 2011.

Limaformosa guirali ( Mocquard, 1887) : Broadley et al. 2018.

Distribution. This species ranges from Sierra Leona to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This species had never been reported in Equatorial Guinea ( Map 33B ).

Comments. We provided the first records of L. guirali for Equatorial Guinea.

Specimens examined. Three specimens. Río Muni: San Joaquín de Ndyiacom, April 1988 ( EBD 27782) , 1990 ( EBD 31513) ; San Joaquín de Ndyiacom (road from Bata to Ayamiken), 20 March 1987 ( EBD 25003) .

Figures

FIGURE 29. From left to right: lateral, dorsal and ventral views of the head of: Hormonotus modestus (A) (EBD 24957), Limaformosa guirali (B) (EBD 27782), and Lycophidion laterale (C) (MNCN 23108). Photos:AS-V.

MAPS 33 A–C. Distribution maps for Equatorial Guinean records of (A) Hormonotus modestus; (B) Limaformosa guirali; (C) Lycophidion laterale (question mark represents an imprecise record).