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Atractaspis dahomeyensis Bocage 1887

Authors/Creators

  • 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

Atractaspis dahomeyensis Bocage, 1887

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 10 specimens (GHS-W 1082, GHS-W 1272-73, Sodo Zion; GHS-Togo 87, Agote; MNHN 1982.0452, Togo, no precise locality; MRAC 29742, Atakpame; MRAC 73014.0059, Notse, T 213, T 216-217, Huilehui).

MORPHOLOGY. — TL from 392 to 600 mm; 29-31 MSR, smooth; 221-236 Ven, smooth; 23-28 Sc, single anteriorly but paired near the tip of the tail; anal single; 5 supralabials; 5-7 infralabials; 1 preocular; 1 postocular; temporal scale formula 1 (very large) + 2.

DISTRIBUTION. — All specimens were obtained from localities in the forested area of the country. This species might be present in ER II, III and V. Previously, it had been mentioned from Togo by Sternfeld (1908b, 1909), Hulselmans & Verheyen (1970), Hulselmans et al. (1970), Roman (1984), Spawls & Branch (1995) and David & Ineich (1999).

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 340, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4547017

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Biodiversity

Collection code
MNHN, MRAC, T
Material sample ID
GHS-W 1082, GHS-W 1272-73, MNHN 1982.0452, MRAC 29742, MRAC 73014.0059, T 213, T 216-217
Scientific name authorship
Bocage
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Squamata
Family
Lamprophiidae
Genus
Atractaspis
Species
dahomeyensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Atractaspis dahomeyensis Bocage, 1887 sec. Segniagbeto, Trape, David, Ohler, Dubois & Glitho, 2011

References

  • STERNFELD L. 1908 b. - Die Schlangenfauna Togos. Mittheilungen Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 4: 207 - 236.
  • STERNFELD L. 1909. - Die Schlangen Togos, in Die Fauna der deutschen Kolonien 1 (1): iv + 29 p., map.
  • 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.
  • ROMAN B. 1984. - Serpents des Pays de l'Entente. C. N. R. S. T., Ouagadougou, 45 p.
  • SPAWLS S. & BRANCH B. 1995. - The Dangerous Snakes of Africa. Natural History. Species Directory. Venoms and Snakebite. Blanford, London, 192 p.
  • DAVID P. & INEICH I. 1999. - Les serpents venimeux du monde: systematique et repartition. Dumerilia 3: 3 - 499.