Psammophis leopardinus Bocage 1887
Authors/Creators
- 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 LEOPARDINUS Bocage, 1887
Leopard Whip Snake, Psammophis léopard, Leoparden-Sandrennnatter
Psammophis sibilans var. leopardinus Bocage, 1887: 206. Type locality: Catumbela, Angola. Lectotype MBL 1798, destroyed by fire in the Museu Bocage.
Psammophis sibilans var. C (part) & D Bocage, 1895: 117; Ferreira 1905: 116.
Psammophis sibilans leopardinus Broadley, 1977: 18, Pl. ii; 1983: 143
Psammophis brevirostris leopardinus Brandstätter, 1995: 53.
Psammophis leopardinus Broadley, 2002: 95.
Description. Two specimens examined by DGB from the Angolan coast north of Latitude 12° S: USNM 20132 from Luanda and TM 45751 from Quiçama National Park. Nostril pierced between 2 or 3 nasals; preocular 1, widely separated from frontal; postoculars 2; temporals usually 2 + 3; supralabials 8, 4 th & 5 th entering orbit; infralabials 10, the first 4 in contact with anterior sublinguals; dorsal scales in 17-17-13 rows; ventrals 163–167; cloacal divided; subcaudals 104–106.
Both specimens have P. leopardinus head markings, but the dorsum is uniform except for a yellow dotted vertebral line in USNM 20132 and pale dorsolateral stripes on scale row 4 in TM 45751.
Ferreira (1905) recorded three specimens from northern Angola (Cazengo; Chingo) and Cabinda, which were presumably destroyed by fire in the Museu Bocage. Further data on this taxon were published by Broadley (2002) and Hughes & Wade (2002).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Bocage
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Psammophiidae
- Genus
- Psammophis
- Species
- leopardinus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Psammophis leopardinus Bocage, 1887 sec. Trape, Crochet, Broadley, Sourouille, Mané, Burger, Böhme, Saleh, Karan, Lanza & Mediannikov, 2019
References
- Bocage JV Barboza du (1887) Melanges erpetologiques. IV Reptiles du dernier voyage de M. M. Capello et Ivens a travers l'Afrique. Jornal de Sciencias, Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, Lisboa 11 (44): 201-208
- Bocage JV Barboza du (1895) Herpetologie d'Angola et du Congo. Imprimerie Nationale, Lisbonne
- Ferreira J Bethencourt (1905) Reptis e amphibios de Angola da Regiao ao norte do Quanza (Colleccao Newton - 1903). Jornal de Sciencias, Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, Lisboa (2) 7: 111-117
- Broadley DG (1977) A review of the genus Psammophis in southern Africa (Serpentes: Colubridae). Arnoldia Rhodhesia 8 (12): 1-29
- Brandstatter F (1995) Eine Revision der Gattung Psammophis mit Berucksichitung der Schwesterngattung innerhalb der tribus Psammophiinae (Colubridae: Lycodontinae). Teil 1: Die Gattungen und Arten der Tribus Psammophiinae. Teil 2: Rasterelektronenmikroskopische Untersuchungen zur Schuppenultrastruktur bei den Arten der Tribus Psammophiini mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der Arten der Gattung Psammophis. Unpub. D. Sc. thesis, Universitat des Saarlan- des, Saarbrucken
- 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
- Hughes B, Wade E (2002) On the African leopard whip snake, Psammophis leopardinus Bocage, 1887 (Serpentes, Colubridae), with the description of a new species from Zambia. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum (Zoology Series) 68 (2): 75-81