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    Species Accepted

    Monopeltis capensis Smith, 1848

    Cape Spade-snouted Worm Lizard

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      8 results
      Cape Spade-snouted Worm Lizard English
      Cape Wedge-snouted Worm Lizard English
      Cape Wedgesnouted Worm Lizard English
      Cape Worm Lizard English
      South African Shield-snouted Amphisbaenian English
      South African Worm Lizard English
      Капский монопельтис Russian
      سحلية الرأس إسفينية الانف الدودية Arabic

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      19 results
      Broadley, D. G. (1997). A review of the Monopeltis capensis complex in southern Africa (Reptilia: Amphisbaenidae). African Journal of Herpetology 46 (1): 1-12.
      Broadley, D. G., Gans, C., & Visser, J. (1976). Studies on Amphisbaenians. (6). The Genera Monopeltis and Dalophia in Southern Africa. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 157 (5): 311-486.
      CONRADIE, W., DOUCETTE-RIISE, S., VANHOOYDONCK, B., ENGELBRECHT, H., MEASEY, G.J., & TOLLEY, K. (2011). Herpetological survey of Rooipoort Nature Reserve, Northern Cape, South Africa. African Herp News (53): 35-41.
      Boulenger, G. A. (1910). A revised list of the South African reptiles and batrachians, with synoptic tables, special reference to the specimens in the South African Museum, and descriptions of new species. Annals of the South African Museum 5: 455-543.
      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.
      Measey, John & Krystal A. Tolley. (2013). A molecular phylogeny for sub-Saharan amphisbaenians. African Journal of Herpetology 62 (2): 100-108.
      Bates, M.F.; Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M.; Burger, M., Marais, J.; Alexander, G.J. & de Villliers, M.S. (eds.). (2014). Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 512 Pp.
      Broadley, D. G. (1962). On some reptile collections from the North-Western and North-Eastern Districts of Southern Rhodesia 1958-1961, with descriptions of four new lizards. Occ. Pap. Nat. Mus. South. Rhodesia 26 (B): 787-843.
      Smith, A. (1848). Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa, Reptilia. Smith, Elder, and Co., London.
      Stander, R. I. (2023). The Reptiles of the Limpopo Province and Kruger National Park. Herp Nomad, Polokwane, South Africa, 367 Pp.

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