Zygaspis

Zygaspis
Zygaspis quadrifrons
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Clade:	Amphisbaenia
Family:	Amphisbaenidae
Genus:	Zygaspis Cope, 1885
Species
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. The genus contains eight species.

Species

The genus contains eight species:

• Zygaspis dolichomenta de Witte & Laurent, 1942
• Zygaspis ferox D. Broadley & S. Broadley, 1997
• Zygaspis kafuensis D. Broadley & S. Broadley, 1997
• Zygaspis maraisi D. Broadley & Measey, 2016
• Zygaspis nigra D. Broadley & Gans, 1969
• Zygaspis quadrifrons (W. Peters, 1862) – Kalahari round-snouted worm lizard, Kalahari dwarf worm lizard
• Zygaspis vandami (V. Fitzsimons, 1930) – Van Dam's dwarf worm lizard
• Zygaspis violacea (W. Peters, 1854)

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Zygaspis.

References

Further reading

Wikispecies has information related to Zygaspis .

• 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).