Zygaspis
{{Short description|Genus of amphisbaenianss}}
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| image = Zygaspis quadrifrons00.jpg
| image_caption = Zygaspis quadrifrons
| taxon = Zygaspis
| authority = Cope, 1885
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = see text
| synonyms =
- Shrevea Vanzolini, 1951
}}
Zygaspis is a genus of amphisbaenians in the family Amphisbaenidae. Species in the genus are commonly known as purple round-headed worm lizards, and are native to equatorial and southern Africa.{{cite book |last1=Branch |first1=Bill |author-link=:fr:William Roy Branch|title=Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa |date=1998 |publisher=Struik |location=Cape Town |isbn=9781868720408 |pages=122–124 |edition=3}} The genus contains eight species.
Species
The genus contains eight species:{{cite web|title=Genus: Zygaspis |url=http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/advanced_search?genus=Zygaspis&submit=Search |website=The Reptile Database |access-date=26 November 2014}}
- Zygaspis dolichomenta {{small|de Witte & Laurent, 1942}}
- Zygaspis ferox {{small|D. Broadley & S. Broadley, 1997}}
- Zygaspis kafuensis {{small|D. Broadley & S. Broadley, 1997}}
- Zygaspis maraisi {{small|D. Broadley & Measey, 2016}}
- Zygaspis nigra {{small|D. Broadley & Gans, 1969}}
- Zygaspis quadrifrons {{small|(W. Peters, 1862)}} – Kalahari round-snouted worm lizard, Kalahari dwarf worm lizard
- Zygaspis vandami {{small|(V. Fitzsimons, 1930)}} – Van Dam's dwarf worm lizard
- Zygaspis violacea {{small|(W. Peters, 1854)}}
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Zygaspis.
References
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Further reading
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- Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. {{ISBN|0-88359-042-5}}. (Zygaspis, genus, p. 122; species accounts, pp. 122–124).
- Cope ED (1885). "Twelfth Contribution to the Herpetology of Tropical America". Proc. American Philosophical Soc. Philadelphia 22: 167–194. (Zygaspis, new genus, p. 188).
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