Mount Erongo
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Mount Erongo (21º37'S 15º40'E) is a mountain of 2,350 metres northeast of Swakopmund in Erongo Region, Namibia. Like the Brandberg Mountain it is a granitic intrusion. It is the only place on Earth that Versicorpus erongoensis, a dung beetle species, occurs. [1]
References
- ^ Christian M. Deschodt, Adrian L.V. Davis & Clarke H. Scholtz (2011). "New dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) taxa from arid south-western Africa" (PDF). Insect Systematics & Evolution. 42 (3): 277–294. doi:10.1163/187631211X568173. hdl:2263/19586.
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