Lycophidion meleagre Boulenger 1893
Description
Lycophidion meleagre Boulenger, 1893
Material (one specimen): One adult specimen (MHNCUP/REP 325, formerly UP-MHNFCP-017394; Fig. S63), collected from unknown locality, in September 1903.
Comments: Lycophidion meleagre has a disjointed distribution, having been recorded from northwestern Angola, northeastern Tanzania, southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and southeastern Kenya (Marques et al. 2018), although Branch (2018) comments the Tanzanian records need to be critically reviewed. Ferreira (1904) cited a juvenile specimen of “ Lycophidium meleagris ” from “Cabiri”, commenting that it was a very rare species, represented then by only two specimens extant in the Natural History Museum London and one in the Lisbon museum. Although we find the specimen to be an adult, it is likely that it matches the one Ferreira published, as Newton was in Cabiri in September 1903.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lamprophiidae
- Genus
- Lycophidion
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Squamata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Boulenger
- Species
- meleagre
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lycophidion meleagre Boulenger, 1893 sec. Santos, Marques, Bauer & Ceríaco, 2021
References
- Marques, M. P., Ceriaco, L. M. P., Blackburn, D. C. & Bauer, A. M. (2018) Diversity and distribution of the amphibians and terrestrial reptiles of Angola atlas of historical and bibliographic records (1840 - 2017). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, 65 (Supplement 2), 1 - 501.
- Branch, W. R. (2018) Snakes of Angola: An annotated checklist. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation, General Section, 12 (2), e 159, 41 - 82.
- Ferreira, J. B. (1904) Reptis e amphibios de Angola da regiao ao norte do Quanza (Colleccao Newton 1903). Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas Physicas e Naturaes, Segunda Serie, 7 (25), 111 - 117.