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Psammophis subtaeniatus Peters 1882

Authors/Creators

  • 1. BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Portugal & CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Portugal & Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 1021, 4169 - 007 Porto, Portugal
  • 2. Aquário Vasco da Gama, R. Direita do Dafundo, 1495 - 718 Cruz Quebrada, Portugal
  • 3. Section of Amphibians and Reptiles, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 - 4080, USA
  • 4. Department of Biology and Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stewardship, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Avenue, Villanova, PA 19085, USA
  • 5. BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Portugal & CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Portugal

Description

Psammophis subtaeniatus Peters, 1882 *

Specimen.

Angola: Benguella: BMNH 1867.7.23.22 [holotype of Psammophis bocagii Boulenger, 1895; Fig. 30].

Comments.

This specimen was collected by Anchieta in Benguela, which Bocage (1867 a) identified as Psammophis elegans and presented to the British Museum in 1867 under that name (NHMA /DF/ZOO/200/1/195). It was later used by Boulenger to describe Psammophis bocagii, first introduced with a brief description and only the locality “ Angola ” in a key to the genus Psammophis (Boulenger 1895). Boulenger (1896) later provided a detailed description of Psammophis bocagii, citing the specimen from Benguela sent by Bocage. Although ranges of ventrals and subcaudals were provided by Boulenger (1895, 1896), these were derived from the data provided by Bocage (1895 a) for his Psammophis sibilans var. A, as listed in Boulenger’s (1896) chresonymy. The specimen was examined by Broadley (1977 a, 2002).

Notes

Published as part of Parrinha, Diogo, Calado, Francisco M. G., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2025, Echoes of a lost museum: Revision of the herpetological collections sent by Barbosa du Bocage from the Lisbon Museum to the British Museum of Natural History, pp. 353-404 in Vertebrate Zoology 75 on pages 353-404, DOI: 10.3897/vz.75.e169790

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Identifiers

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/95B1C6AAE2155E18ADCFD5147DBD7ADD

Cites
Figure: 10.3897/vz.75.e169790.figure30 (DOI)
Figure: https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1445684 (URL)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.3897/vz.75.e169790 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/A10CB69D67E05967B56F35E567C97250 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/22DBAEFB-4690-47FD-9259-98013D7BF8CB (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/95B1C6AAE2155E18ADCFD5147DBD7ADD (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/304193298 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/312863/taxon/95B1C6AAE2155E18ADCFD5147DBD7ADD.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH
Material sample ID
BMNH 1867.7.23.22
Scientific name authorship
Peters
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Family
Psammophiidae
Genus
Psammophis
Species
subtaeniatus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Psammophis subtaeniatus Peters, 1882 sec. Parrinha, Calado, Marques, Bauer & Ceríaco, 2025

References

  • Peters WCH (1882) Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique auf Befehl seiner Majestat des Konigs Friedrich Wilhelm IV in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgefuhrt. Zoologie, III, Amphibien. G. Reimer, Berlin, xv, 191 pp., 33 plates.
  • Boulenger GA (1895) An account of the reptiles and batrachians collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith in western Somali-land and the Galla Country. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1894: 530 - 540, plates 29 - 30.
  • Bocage JVB (1867 a) Segunda lista dos reptis das possessões portuguezas d'Africa occidental que existem no Museu de Lisboa. Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, Série 1, 1: 217–228.
  • Boulenger GA (1895) An account of the reptiles and batrachians collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith in western Somali-land and the Galla Country. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1894: 530–540, plates 29–30.
  • Boulenger GA (1896) Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III. Containing the Colubridae (Opistoglyphae and Proteroglyphae), Amblycephalidae, and Viperidae. British Museum, London, xiv, 727 pp., 25 plates.
  • Bocage JVB (1895 a) Herpétologie d'Angola et du Congo. Ministério da Marinha e das Colónias, Lisbonne, 203 pp., 20 plates.
  • Broadley DG (1977 a) A review of the genus Psammophis in Southern Africa (Serpentes: Colubridae). Arnoldia 8 (12): 1–29.
  • 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