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Psammophis subtaeniatus Peters 1882

  • 1. Centre d'Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive (CEFE), UMR 5175, CNRS - Université de Montpellier - Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier - EPHE, 1919 Route de Mende, F- 34293 Montpellier cedex 5, France
  • 2. Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, P. O. Box 240, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
  • 3. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Laboratoire de Paludologie et de Zoologie Médicale, UMR MIVEGEC, B. P. 1386, Dakar, Sénégal
  • 4. African Amphibian Conservation Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa - Flora, Fauna & Man, Ecological Services Ltd, Tortola, British Virgin Islands
  • 5. Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, D- 53113 Bonn, Germany
  • 6. Departement of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
  • 7. Aix Marseille Université, IRD, AP-HM, MEPHI, Marseille, France
  • 8. Museo di Storia Naturale, Università di Firenze, Sezione di Zoologia " La Specola ", Via Romana 17, I- 50125 Firenze, Italy Corresponding author: Email: jean-francois. trape @ ird. fr
  • 9. Aix Marseille Université, IRD, AP-HM, MEPHI, Marseille, France & Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Laboratoire de Paludologie et de Zoologie Médicale, UMR MIVEGEC, B. P. 1386, Dakar, Sénégal

Description

PSAMMOPHIS SUBTAENIATUS Peters, 1882

Western Stripe-bellied Sand Snake, Psammophis à ventre ligné, Gelbbauch-Sandrennnatter

Psammophis sibilans var. subtaeniata Peters, 1882: 121 (part). Type locality: Tete, Mozambique. Lectotype: ZMB 9992A designated by Broadley, 1977:13.

Psammophis bocagii Boulenger, 1895: 538. Type locality: “ Angola ”, subsequently given as Benguela (Boulenger 1896). Lectotype: BMNH 67.7.23.22.

Psammophis subtaeniatus Broadley, 2002: 93.

One specimen examined by DGB from north of Latitude 12° S, MBL 1772 from Rio Bengo near Luanda in Angola (8°43’S, 13°24’E), one of the syntypes of P. bocagii destroyed by fire in the Museu Bocage. Full data for this taxon have been published in Broadley (2002).

Notes

Published as part of Trape, Jean-François, Crochet, Pierre-André, Broadley, Donald G., Sourouille, Patricia, Mané, Youssouph, Burger, Marius, Böhme, Wolfgang, Saleh, Mostafa, Karan, Anna, Lanza, Benedetto & Mediannikov, Oleg, 2019, On the Psammophis sibilans group (Serpentes, Lamprophiidae, Psammophiinae) north of 12 ° S, with the description of a new species from West Africa, pp. 61-91 in Bonn zoological Bulletin 68 (1) on page 70, DOI: 10.20363/BZB-2019.68.1.061, http://zenodo.org/record/15759410

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References

  • Broadley DG (1977) A review of the genus Psammophis in southern Africa (Serpentes: Colubridae). Arnoldia Rhodhesia 8 (12): 1-29
  • Boulenger GA (1896) Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III. British Museum (Natural History), London
  • Broadley DG (2002) A review of the species of Psammophis Boie found south of Latitude 12 ° S (Serpentes: Psammophiinae). African Journal of Herpetology 51: 83-119