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    Species Accepted

    Zygaspis vandami (Fitzsimons, 1930)

    Van Dam's Dwarf Worm Lizard
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Zygaspis
    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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      Van Dam's Dwarf Worm Lizard English
      Van Dam's Round-headed Worm Lizard English
      Van Dams Dwarf Worm Lizard English
      Van Dam’s Dwarf Worm Lizard English
      سحلية فان دام القزمة الدودية Arabic

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      14 results
      Bates, Michael F. (2018). Catalogue of reptiles from Mozambique in the collection of the National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa. Indago 34 (2): 135–147.
      FitzSimons, V. F. (1930). Descriptions of new South African Reptilia and Batrachia, with distribution records of allied species in the Transvaal Museum collection. Annals Transvaal Mus. 14: 20-48.
      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.
      Loveridge, A. (1951). On reptiles and amphibians from Tanganyika Territory collected by C.J.P. Ionides. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 106 (4): 175- 204.
      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, Donald G. & Broadley, Sheila. (1997). A revision of the African genus Zygaspis Cope (Reptilia: Amphisbaenia). Syntarsus 4: 1-24.
      Loveridge, & ARTHUR. (1941). Revision of the African lizards of the family Amphisbaenidae. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 87: 353-451.
      CONRADIE, WERNER; WILLIAM R. BRANCH, & GILLIAN WATSON. (2019). Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 2: Reptiles (Squamata). Zootaxa 4576 (1): 001–045.
      BATES, M.F., & MAGUIRE, D. (2009). Zygaspis vandami arenicola Broadley & Broadley, 1997. African Herp News (47): 43-44.

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