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Myriopholis perreti
Description
Myriopholis perreti (Roux-Esteve, 1979)
Figure 30C
Leptotyphlops perreti Roux-Esteve, 1979: 464. Type locality: “ Ebolowa, Cameroun ”.
Myriopholis perreti (Roux-Esteve, 1979): Adalsteinsson et al. 2009: 12.
Distribution. This species occurs from southeastern Cameroon to the Republic of the Congo, including Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, where it has been recorded in Río Muni at Monte Alén National Park (Lasso et al. 2002) (Map 35A).
Comments. A poorly known species recorded only a handful of times (Roux-Esteve 1979; Trape & RouxEstève 1995; Lasso et al. 2002; Pauwels & David 2008b).
Specimens examined. One specimen. Río Muni: Monte Alén National Park (in the EBD collection, without EBD number).
Notes
Published as part of Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto, Calvo-Revuelta, Marta & Riva, Ignacio De La, 2022, Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea, pp. 1-197 in Zootaxa 5202 (1) on page 120, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5202.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7285600
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Leptotyphlopidae
- Genus
- Myriopholis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Squamata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Roux-Esteve
- Species
- perreti
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Myriopholis perreti (Roux-Esteve, 1979) sec. Sánchez-Vialas, Calvo-Revuelta & Riva, 2022
References
- Roux-Esteve, R. (1979) Une nouvelle espece de Leptotyphlops (Serpentes) du Cameroun: Leptotyphlops perreti. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 86 (2), 463 - 466. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 82310
- Adalsteinsson, S. A., Branch, W. R., Trape, S., Vitt, L. J. & Hedges, S. B. (2009) Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata). Zootaxa, 2244, 1 - 50.
- Lasso, C. A., Rial, A. I., Castroviejo, J. & De la Riva, I. (2002) Herpetofauna del Parque Nacional de Monte Alen (Rio Muni, Guinea Ecuatorial). Graellsia, 58, 21 - 34. https: // doi. org / 10.3989 / graellsia. 2002. v 58. i 2.276
- Pauwels, O. S. G. & David, P. (2008 b) Miscellanea herpetologica Gabonica II. Hamadryad, 32 (1), 19 - 24.