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Bamanophis dorri

  • 1. Département de Zoologie et Biologie animale, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, BP 1515, Lomé (Togo) h _ segniagbeto @ yahoo. fr
  • 2. Laboratoire de Paludologie et Zoologie médicale, UR 77, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Centre de Dakar, BP 1386, Dakar (Senegal) jean-françois. trape @ ird. fr
  • 3. UMR 7205 OSEB, Reptiles et Amphibiens, Département de Systématique et Évolution, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CP 30, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) pdavid @ mnhn. fr ohler @ mnhn. fr adubois @ mnhn. fr
  • 4. Département de Zoologie et Biologie animale, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, BP 1515, Lomé (Togo) iglitho @ yahoo. fr

Description

Bamanophis dorri (Lataste, 1888)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 2 specimens (MRAC 29513- 29514), Namoudjoga.

MORPHOLOGY. — TL 426 and 590 mm; 30 and 31 MSR smooth; 236 and 246 Ven, smooth; 80 and 84 Sc, all paired; anal divided; 9 supralabials; 10 infralabials; 1 preocular; 2 postocular; 1 subocular; temporal scale formula 2 + 3.

DISTRIBUTION. — This species inhabits Sudanese savannahs. It is restricted to ER I. The specimens examined by us are probably those cited by Hulselmans & Verheyen (1970).

REMARK

The recent revision of Schätti & Trape (2008) based on external morphology, osteology, and hemipenis features transferred this species from the genus Haemorrhois Boie, 1826 to their new genus Bamanophis.

Notes

Published as part of Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean François, David, Patrick, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain & Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, 2011, The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems, pp. 325-360 in Zoosystema 33 (3) on page 331, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4547017

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References

  • HULSELMANS J. L. J. & VERHEYEN W. N. 1970. - Contribution a l'herpetologie de la Republique du Togo: Liste preliminaire des serpents recoltes par la deuxieme mission zoologique belge au Togo. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique africaines 82 (1 - 2): 200 - 204.
  • SCHATTI B. & TRAPE J. - F. 2008. - Bamanophis, a new genus for the West African colubrid Periops dorri Lataste, 1888 (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubrinae). Revue suisse de Zoologie 115 (4): 595 - 615.