Blanus sp.

Parrinha, Diogo, Calado, Francisco M. G., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2025, Echoes of a lost museum: Revision of the herpetological collections sent by Barbosa du Bocage from the Lisbon Museum to the British Museum of Natural History, Vertebrate Zoology 75, pp. 353-404 : 353-404

Blanus sp.

Specimen.

Portugal: “Portugal”: BMNH 1864.9.19.38 .

Comments.

This specimen was among the first material presented to the British Museum in 1864, under the name Amphisbaena cinerea , and was cited by Boulenger (1885 b) as Blanus cinereus . The genus Blanus is extremely conservative in external and internal morphology, and without a more precise locality it is, at present, impossible to determine to which of the two species present in Portugal this specimen belongs ( Ceríaco and Bauer 2018; Villa et al. 2019).