Limaformosa savorgnani (Mocquard, 1887)

Lobón-Rovira, Javier, Lobón-Rovira, Baptista, Ninda L, Clark, Tyron, Verburgt, Luke, Jongsma, Gregory Fm, Conradie, Werner, and, Luis Veríssimo, Vaz, Pedro & Pinto, 2025, Filling the gaps: herpetological checklist of Mayombe National Park and Cabinda Province (Angola) shed light on one of the most unexplored corners of tropical Central Africa, African Journal of Herpetology 74 (1), pp. 1-59 : 1-59

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.1080/21564574.2024.2421007

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15634413

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scientific name

Limaformosa savorgnani (Mocquard, 1887)
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Limaformosa savorgnani (Mocquard, 1887) View in CoL

Material. ANGOLA – Cabinda Province • Tando Zinze ; –5.306833, 12.498538; 32 m a.s.l; photographic record; roadkill GoogleMaps .

Identification. Limaformosa savorgnani can be distinguished from congeners by having two rows of strongly developed secondary keels on the vertebral scales. The species is reported from neighbouring areas in the Republic of the Congo and DRC ( Broadley et al. 2018).

Biology and distribution. Widely distributed in Central Africa from Cameroon eastwards to Ethiopia and southwards to Cabinda Province. The specimen from Cabinda Province was found in the Littoral Peneplain and represents the first confirmed record of the species in Angola.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Squamata

Family

Lamprophiidae

Genus

Limaformosa

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