Psammophylax tritaeniatus (Günther, 1868)

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.11196767

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DCC84890-3629-51BB-83FE-9935F7FE9FA5

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scientific name

Psammophylax tritaeniatus (Günther, 1868)
status

 

Psammophylax tritaeniatus (Günther, 1868) View in CoL

Fig. 11 a View Figure 11

Record.

Catchi surroundings [- 13.7620, 13.2569, 1585 m] (MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001546).

Comments.

This species occurs in mid to high-elevation areas throughout southern and eastern Africa ( Spawls et al. 2018). Previous records from Angola are from high-elevation areas of the Escarpment ( Marques et al. 2018). This specimen represents the first record for Namibe Province and the westernmost record for P. tritaeniatus . Further sampling across the species range may reveal additional cryptic diversity ( Keates et al. 2019).

MB

Universidade de Lisboa, Museu Bocage

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Psammophiidae

Genus

Psammophylax