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    Species Accepted

    Monopeltis sphenorhynchus (Peters, 1879)

    Slender Spade-snouted Worm Lizard
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Monopeltis
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Slender Spade-snouted Worm Lizard English
      Slender Worm Lizard English
      Spade-snouted Worm Lizard English

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      28 results
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      Fitzsimons, V. F. M. (1941). Descriptions of some new lizards from South Africa and a frog from southern Rhodesia. Annals Transvaal Mus. 20 (3): 273-281.
      Tolley, K.A., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D.W., Weeber, J., Burger, M. & Alexander, G.J. (eds). (2023). Conservation status of the reptiles of South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho. Suricata 10. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria.
      Bauer, A.M.; Günther,R. & Klipfel,M. (1995). The herpetological contributions of Wilhelm C.H. Peters (1815-1883). SSAR Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology, 714 Pp.
      Loveridge, & ARTHUR. (1941). Revision of the African lizards of the family Amphisbaenidae. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 87: 353-451.
      Parker, & HAMPTON WILDMAN. (1935). A new species of amphisbaenid lizard from Bechuanaland. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (10) 15: 582-583.
      Jacobsen, Niels H.G.; Errol W. Pietersen & Darren W. Pietersen. (2010). A preliminary herpetological survey of the Vilanculos Coastal Wildlife Sanctuary on the San Sebastian Peninsula, Vilankulo, Mozambique. Herpetology Notes 3: 181-193.
      Gans, Carl; Bauer, Aaron M.;Günther, Rainer. (1997). An annotated type catalogue of the amphisbaenians (Reptilia: Squamata: Amphisbaenia) in the Zoological Museum, Berlin. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 73 (1): 41-50.
      Stander, R. I. (2023). The Reptiles of the Limpopo Province and Kruger National Park. Herp Nomad, Polokwane, South Africa, 367 Pp.
      Herrmann, H.-W.; W.R. Branch. (2013). Fifty years of herpetological research in the Namib Desert and Namibia with an updated and annotated species checklist. Journal of Arid Environments 93: 94–115.

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