. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Fig. 20. Amphisbaena phylofiniens (Topotype 9 47901). Distribution. Tanganyika Territory: Ujiji and vicinity. Remarks. Known only from the two cotypes in the Berlin Museum, and four examples in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. I was informed by the District Officer, Mr. J. R. Johnston, that he had seen a specimen of this rare amphisbaenid in sandy country near Lake Tanganyika at least twenty miles south of Ujiji. Amphisbaena mpwapwaensis Loveridge 1932a. Amphisbaena mpwapwaensis Loveridge, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zo
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. Fig. 20. Amphisbaena phylofiniens (Topotype 9 47901). Distribution. Tanganyika Territory: Ujiji and vicinity. Remarks. Known only from the two cotypes in the Berlin Museum, and four examples in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. I was informed by the District Officer, Mr. J. R. Johnston, that he had seen a specimen of this rare amphisbaenid in sandy country near Lake Tanganyika at least twenty miles south of Ujiji. Amphisbaena mpwapwaensis Loveridge 1932a. Amphisbaena mpwapwaensis Loveridge, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 72, p. 378: Mpwapwa, Ugogo, Tanganyika Territory. 1933h. Loveridge, p. 304, pi. iii, fig. 1. 1937f. Loveridge, p. 495. Description. Rostral moderate, triangular; nasal fused with first labial, preocular, prefrontal and frontal, forming a long suture with its fellow behind the rostral; no prefrontals; no frontal; a pair of post- frontals; a pair of parietals; a pair of occipitals; no supraocular; no preocular; an ocular separating postfrontal from anterior labial, eye hidden; 2 (second and third) upper labials, posterior largest; 2-3 moderate temporals, upper in contact with postfrontal, parietal, posterior labial and other temporals; mental elongate, subtriangular;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass. : The Museum
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