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Monopeltis Vanderysti Lujae
''Monopeltis'' is a genus of amphisbaenians in the family Amphisbaenidae. Species in the genus are commonly known as worm lizards, even though they are not lizards. The genus is endemic to southern Africa. 20 species are placed in this genus. Species The following species are recognized as being valid. *''Monopeltis adercae'' – Lualaba worm lizard *''Monopeltis anchietae'' – Angolan spade-snouted worm lizard, Anchieta's worm lizard *''Monopeltis capensis'' – Cape worm lizard, South African shield-snouted amphisbaenian, Cape wedge-snouted worm lizard *''Monopeltis decosteri'' – De Coster's worm lizard *''Monopeltis galeata'' – helmeted worm lizard *''Monopeltis guentheri'' – Western Congo worm lizard *''Monopeltis infuscata'' – dusky spade-snouted worm lizard, infuscate wedge-snouted amphisbaenian *''Monopeltis jugularis'' – Gaboon worm lizard *''Monopeltis kabindae'' – Kabinda worm lizard *''Monopeltis leonhardi'' – Kalahari worm lizard *''Monopelti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Smith (zoologist)
Sir Andrew Smith (3 December 1797 – 11 August 1872) was a British surgery, surgeon, explorer, ethnologist and zoology, zoologist. He is considered the father of zoology in South Africa having described many species across a wide range of groups in his major work, ''Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa''. Smith was born in Hawick, Roxburghshire. He qualified in medicine at the University of Edinburgh obtaining an Doctor of Medicine, M.D. degree in 1819, having joined the Army Medical Services in 1816. South Africa 1820–1837 In 1820 he was ordered to the Cape Colony and was sent to Grahamstown to supervise the medical care of European soldiers and soldiers of the Cape Corps. He was appointed the Albany district surgeon in 1822 and started the first free dispensary for indigent patients in South Africa. He led a scientific expedition into the interior and was able to indulge in his interests of natural history and anthropology. On several occasions, he was sent by gov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monopeltis Galeata
The helmeted worm lizard (''Monopeltis galeata'') is a species of amphisbaenian in the family Amphisbaenidae. The species is native to the west coast of Central Africa. Geographic range ''M. galeata'' is found in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea ( Corisco Island), and Gabon. Description ''M. galeata'' may attain a snout-to-vent length of , with a tail long. Specimens preserved in alcohol are whitish, both dorsally Standard anatomical terms of location are used to describe unambiguously the anatomy of humans and other animals. The terms, typically derived from Latin or Greek roots, describe something in its standard anatomical position. This position provi ... and ventrally. Boulenger GA (1885). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. ... Amphisbænidæ.'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 497 pp. + Plates I–XXIV. (''Monopeltis galeata'', p. 457). Reproduction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monopeltis Mauricei
''Monopeltis mauricei'', Maurice's slender worm lizard or Maurice's spade-snouted worm lizard, is a species of amphisbaenian in the family Amphisbaenidae. The species found in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe file:Zimbabwe, relief map.jpg, upright=1.22, Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Bots .... References Monopeltis Reptiles described in 1935 Taxa named by Hampton Wildman Parker {{Amphisbaenidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Gans
Carl Gans (7 September 1923 – 30 November 2009) was a German-born American zoologist and herpetologist. He and Glen Northcutt proposed the provocative theory of "new head theory", opened up evolutionary developmental biology as a new discipline. Early life and education Gans, who was Jewish, was born in Germany. While a teenager in 1939, he was able to escape Nazi Germany by fleeing to the United States, where he completed his education. He attended George Washington High School in New York City. In 1944 he earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering at New York University, and in 1950 an MS in Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University. In 1957 he received a PhD in Biology from Harvard University."Carl Gans, Obituary". ''The New York Times''. Legacy.com. Career From 1947 to 1955 Gans worked as an engineer. From 1957 to 1958 he was a Fellow in Biology at the University of Florida. From 1958 to 1971 he taught biology at the State University of New York, Buffalo. From then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monopeltis Luandae
''Monopeltis luandae'' is a species of amphisbaenian in the family Amphisbaenidae. The species is endemic to Angola. Habitat The preferred natural habitat of ''M. luandae'' is savanna, at altitudes of . Description ''M. luandae'' may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of . Dorsally Standard anatomical terms of location are used to describe unambiguously the anatomy of humans and other animals. The terms, typically derived from Latin or Greek roots, describe something in its standard anatomical position. This position provi ..., it is speckled with dark pigment. Gans (1976). Reproduction The mode of reproduction of ''M. luandae'' is unknown. References Further reading * Branch WR, Baptista N, Vaz Pinto P (2018). "Angolan Amphisbaenians: Rediscovery of ''Monopeltis luandae'' Gans 1976, with comments on the type locality of ''Monopeltis perplexus'' Gans 1976 (Sauria: Amphisbaenidae)". ''Herpetology Notes'' 11: 603–606. * Gans C (1976). "Three New Spade-Snouted Amphisb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Werner
Franz Josef Maria Werner (15 August 1867 in Vienna – 28 February 1939 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist and explorer. Specializing as a herpetologist and entomologist, Werner described numerous species and other taxa of frogs, snakes, insects, and other organisms. His father introduced him at age six to reptiles and amphibians. A brilliant student, he corresponded often with George Albert Boulenger (1858–1937) and Oskar Boettger (1844–1910) who encouraged his studies with these animals. Werner obtained his doctorate in Vienna in 1890 and then after spending a year in Leipzig, began to teach at the Vienna Institute of Zoology. In 1919, he became tenured as a professor, maintaining this title until his retirement in 1933. Although working close to the Vienna Natural History Museum, he could not use their herpetological collections, after the death of its director, Franz Steindachner (1834–1919), who did not like Werner, and had barred him from accessing the collection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monopeltis Leonhardi
The Kalahari worm lizard (''Monopeltis leonhardi)'', also known commonly as the Kalahari spade-snouted worm lizard, is a species of amphisbaenian in the family Amphisbaenidae. The species is indigenous to southern Africa. Etymology The specific name, ''leonhardi'', is in honor of German ethnographer Leonhard Schultze-Jena. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (''Monopeltis leonhardi'', p. 155,; "Schultze", p. 238). Geographic range ''M. leonhardi'' is found in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Habitat The preferred natural habitat of ''M. leonhardi'' is shallow sand. Description ''M. leonhardi'' is purplish pink dorsally, and pinkish ventrally. Adults usually have a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of . The maximum recorded SVL is . Branch, Bill (2004). ''Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa''. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Ferdinand Laurent
Raymond Ferdinand Louis-Philippe Laurent (16 May 1917 – 3 February 2005) was a Belgian herpetologist, who specialized in African and South American amphibians and reptiles. He published more than 200 scientific articles and book chapters. Several species have been named after him, most recently '' Phymaturus laurenti'' in 2010. Additional species of reptiles named in his honor include ''Chironius laurenti ''Chironius laurenti'' is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to Bolivia and Brazil. The species was named in honor of Raymond Laurent. Taxonomy ''C. laurenti'' belongs to the genus ''Chironius'' (com ...'', '' Liolaemus laurenti'', and '' Mehelya laurenti''. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Laurent, p. 152). References Further reading * ''(First page freely available online, remainder available to subscr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monopeltis Kabindae
The Kabinda worm lizard (''Monopeltis kabindae'') is a species of amphisbaenian in the family Amphisbaenidae. The species is native to Central Africa. Geographic range ''M. kabindae'' is found in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The type locality is Kabinda, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Description The holotype A holotype (Latin: ''holotypus'') is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of s ... of ''M. kabindae'' has a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of . dos Santos (2013). Reproduction The mode of reproduction of ''M. kabindae'' is unknown. References Further reading * de Witte G-F, Laurent RF (1942). "''Contribution à la systématique de Amphisbaenidae du Congo belge''". ''Revue de zoologie et de botanique africaines'' 36 (1): 67–86. (''Monopeltis kabindae'', new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Peters
Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 – 20 April 1883) was a German natural history, naturalist and explorer. He was assistant to the anatomist Johannes Peter Müller and later became curator of the Natural History Museum, Berlin, Berlin Zoological Museum. Encouraged by Müller and the explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Peters travelled to Mozambique via Angola in September 1842, exploring the coastal region and the Zambesi River. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens, which he then described in ''Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique... in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt'' (1852–1882). The work was comprehensive in its coverage, dealing with mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, river fish, insects and botany. He replaced Martin Lichtenstein as curator of the museum in 1858, and in the same year he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In a few years, he greatly increased ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monopeltis Jugularis
The Gaboon worm lizard (''Monopeltis jugularis'') is a species of amphisbaenian in the family Amphisbaenidae. The species is native to the west coast of Central Africa. Geographic range ''M. jugularis'' is found in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. Habitat The preferred natural habitat of ''M. jugularis'' is forest. Description The holotype A holotype (Latin: ''holotypus'') is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of s ... of ''M. jugularis'' has a total length of , which includes a tail long. The body has a diameter of . Peters W (1880). Reproduction The mode of reproduction of ''M. jugularis'' is unknown. References Further reading * Boulenger GA (1885). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume II. ... Amphisbænidæ.'' London: Trustees of the Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
