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Cordylus phonolithos

Cordylus phonolithos

Marques, Ceriaco, Stanley, Bandeira, Agarwal & Bauer, 2019

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Marques, Mariana P., Parrinha, Diogo, Lopes-Lima, Manuel, Tiutenko, Arthur, Bauer, Aaron M., Ceríaco, Luis M. P. (2024): An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola. ZooKeys 1201: 167-217, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1201.120750

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AnimaliaChordataReptiliaSquamataCordylidaeCordylusCordylus phonolithos

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Figure 7. a Rhoptropus aff. montanus b Heliobolus crawfordi (adult) c Heliobolus crawfordi (juvenile) d Pedioplanis haackei e Pedioplanis serodioi f Cordylus phonolithos g Cordylosaurus subtessellatus h Gerrhosaurus sp. Photographs by AT (a, b, e, f, h) and LMPC (c, d, g).

Imageimage/png© Marques, Mariana P.;Parrinha, Diogo;Lopes-Lima, Manuel;Tiutenko, Arthur;Bauer, Aaron M.;Ceríaco, Luis M. P.Marques, Mariana P.;Parrinha, Diogo;Lopes-Lima, Manuel;Tiutenko, Arthur;Bauer, Aaron M.;Ceríaco, Luis M. P.

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An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Marques, Mariana P., Parrinha, Diogo, Lopes-Lima, Manuel, Tiutenko, Arthur, Bauer, Aaron M., Ceríaco, Luis M. P. (2024): An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola. ZooKeys 1201: 167-217, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1201.120750

Abstract

The Serra da Neve inselberg in Namibe Province, southwestern Angola is the second highest peak of Angola with an elevation of 2489 m. It remains one of the least explored regions in the country, despite several endemic species having been recently described from this inselberg. Here we provide an inventory of the amphibian and reptile species ocurring in Serra da Neve and compare its fauna with that of the surrounding habitats at lower elevations. We also examine the phylogenetic affinities of the inselberg taxa. A total of 59 herpetological taxa were recorded for the Serra da Neve inselberg and its immediate surroundings. These include 11 species of amphibians, belonging to nine genera and seven different families, and 48 species of reptiles, belonging to 32 genera and 12 families. Of these, one amphibian and seven reptiles from seven different genera are strictly endemic, making the inselberg the richest region in southwestern Africa with respect to strict endemics, with one endemic reptile taxa per 127 km 2. Not surprisingly, most of the recorded taxa belong to clades that are endemic, or at least strongly associated, with southern Africa, but two are representatives of central African clades, and another two are more closely related to eastern African highland taxa. We also provide comments on the threats to the conservation of this endemic-rich inselberg.

Marques M P, Parrinha D, Lopes-Lima M, Tiutenko A, Bauer A M, Ceríaco L M P, pensoft (2024). An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola. ZooKeys. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/pxy8h4 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-16.

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GBIF Usage Key
230323976
Dataset Key
28547dc9-ef7a-4dae-a26a-78a387b8bb11
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Backbone Key
10759683
Taxon ID
959D1402FB5F53B19E800E019E44C8EC.taxon
Last Crawled
6/15/2026
Last Interpreted
6/15/2026
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