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Figure 29. Map with localities where endemic species occur in Angola. Orange stars represent localities where endem¬ 
ic reptile species occur, green starts represent localities where amphibian endemics occur, red starts represent localities 
where both amphibian and reptile endemics have been recorded. 
as basic geographic information) available to Boeage, his zoogeographie interpretation of Angola 
has been aeeepted, even if updated and refined by subsequent authors. Monard (1937b) elassified 
the diversity of reptiles oeeurring in Angola into six groups — the “pelagie reptiles” (marine 
turtles), the “paraethiopian reptiles,” further divided into “reptiles with extra-ethiopian geographic 
distribution” (all species oeeurring in the “Ethiopian” region, plus other regions of Afriea and even 
other eontinents), and “panethiopian or generalized ethiopian” (all speeies with broad sub-Saharan 
distributions), the “tropieal and western region reptiles,” the “austral and eastern region reptiles,” 
and finally an endemic “Angola reptiles” group. While the pelagic and the paraethiopian reptiles 
laek any biogeographie signal, the latter groups followed the main northern-southern separation 
proposed by Boeage — with the “tropical and western region reptiles” being confined to the north¬ 
ern areas of the eountry, and the “austral and eastern region reptiles” to southern areas, although 
