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Psammophis notostictus Peters 1867

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua da Escola Politécnica, 58, 1269 - 102 Lisbon, Portugal. & Department of Natural History, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA.
  • 2. Instituto Nacional da Biodiversidade e Áreas de Conservação, Ministério do Ambiente de Angola, Centralidade do Kilamba, Rua 26 de Fevereiro, quarteirão Nimi ya Lukemi, edíficio Q 11, 3 ° andar, Angola.
  • 3. Department of Natural History, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA.
  • 4. American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 th Street, New York, New York 10024, USA. & City University of New York, Graduate Center, 365 5 th Ave., New York, New York, 10016, USA.
  • 5. Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua da Escola Politécnica, 58, 1269 - 102 Lisbon, Portugal.
  • 6. Department of Herpetology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, California 94118, USA.
  • 7. Department of Biology, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085 - 1699, USA.

Description

KAROO SAND SNAKE – Fig. 19

Psammophis notostictus Peters, 1867

MATERIAL.— Espinheira, 30 November 2013, 16º47ʹ13.8ʺS, 12º21ʹ27.5ʺE, 457 m (CAS 254827); Pico Azevedo, 7 December 2013, 15º32ʹ2.4ʺS, 12º29ʹ31.1ʺE, 359 m (CAS 254940).

COMMENTS.— Psammophis notostictus is easily recognizable from all other southern African Psammophis by its single cloacal shield and the presence of two preoculars (Broadley 1975b, 1977, 2002). These two specimens have both of these diagnostic characters. The species is known for Angola, but only from Namibe Province. The closest published records of the species are in Rio São Nicolau (Loveridge 1940; Broadley 1975b, 2002), Moçamedes [Namibe city] (Bocage 1887; Loveridge 1940), and Curoca River (Loveridge 1940; Broadley 2002). Our records expand the known distribution of the species further south in the country, although it is continuous southwards throughout much of western southern Africa (Branch 1998).

Notes

Published as part of Ceríaco, L. M. P., De Sá, S., Bandeira, S., Valério, H., Stanley, E. L., Kuhn, A. L., Marques, M. P., Vindum, J. V., Blackburn, D. C. & Bauer, A. M., 2016, Herpetological Survey of Iona National Park and Namibe Regional Natural Park, with a Synoptic List of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Namibe Province, Southwestern Angola, pp. 15-61 in Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 63 (2) on page 41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11066801

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/F67087FF53576D39FF975735AF38B09F

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.11066830 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.11066801 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/0A49FF87534D6D23FFEC5623AC39B238 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/F67087FF53576D39FF975735AF38B09F (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/228874969 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/295378/taxon/F67087FF53576D39FF975735AF38B09F.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
CAS
Material sample ID
CAS 254827, CAS 254940
Event date
2013-11-30
Verbatim event date
2013-11-30/12-07
Scientific name authorship
Peters
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Squamata
Family
Psammophiidae
Genus
Psammophis
Species
notostictus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Psammophis notostictus Peters, 1867 sec. Ceríaco, Sá, Bandeira, Valério, Stanley, Kuhn, Marques, Vindum, Blackburn & Bauer, 2016

References

  • BROADLEY, D. G. 1975 b. A review of Psammophis leightoni and Psammophis notostictus in southern Africa (Serpentes: Colubridae). Arnoldia (Rhodesia) 13 (7): 1 - 17.
  • BROADLEY, D. G. 1977. A review of the genus Psammophis in Southern Africa (Serpentes: Colubridae). Arnoldia (Rhodesia) 12 (8): 1 - 29.
  • BROADLEY, D. G. 2002. A review of the species of Psammophis Boie found south of Latitude 12 ºS (Serpentes: Psammophiinae). African Journal of Herpetology 51 (2): 83 - 119.
  • LOVERIDGE, A. 1940. Revision of the African snakes of the genera Dromophis and Psammophis. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 87 (1): 1 - 69.
  • BOCAGE, J. V. B. 1887. Melanges herpetologie. IV. Reptiles du dernier voyage de MM. Capello et Ivens a travers l'Afrique. Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas Physicas e Naturaes 6 (44): 201 - 208.
  • BRANCH, W. R. 1998. Field Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa, 3 rd edition. Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa. 399 pp.