Lamprophis virgatus
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
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 10 specimens (MRAC 29555, MRAC 29675, Missahohe; MRAC A7036.0028, GHS-W 1046, Agou; MRAC A7036.0015, GHS-W 0045, GHS-W 1084, GHS-W 1086, GHS-W 1205, Sodo Zion; GHS-W 1260, Yo [Agome Yo]).
MORPHOLOGY. — TL from 240 to 860 mm; 23-25 MSR, smooth; 198-216 Ven, smooth, 43-62 Sc, paired; anal single; loreal longer than high; 8 supralabials; 8-10 infralabials; 2, sometimes 1 preoculars; 2 postoculars; temporal scale formula 1 + 2 + 3.
DISTRIBUTION. — This species is mainly a forest-dweller. The northern limit of its range is in the region of Aledjo where new specimens were recently collected. It might also be present in the region of Kara. Previously this species had been recorded from Togo by Matschie (1893), Sternfeld (1908b, 1909: 12), Hulselmans & Verheyen (1970), and Hulselmans et al. (1971).
CONSERVATION STATUS. — According to reports of the CITES Division of the DFC Togo, 50 live specimens of the genus Lamprophis were exported from Togo in 2001 and 2002 but the precise species was not stated.
Notes
Files
Files
(1.5 kB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:a2803e70f7a6485c79b7ce074c6ee1c5
|
1.5 kB | Download |
System files
(11.0 kB)
| Name | Size | Download all |
|---|---|---|
|
md5:f11c153c35a9a23a9725123cbda2cf11
|
11.0 kB | Download |
Linked records
Additional details
Identifiers
Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5252/z2011n3a4 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4547017 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF8E8436C03D6E71FFEDFF816F6AE04F (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03B7FC4EC02F6E63FF44FEB76D2EE390 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MRAC
- Material sample ID
- MRAC 29555, MRAC 29675, A7036.0028, A7036.0015
- Scientific name authorship
- Hallowell
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Lamprophiidae
- Genus
- Lamprophis
- Species
- virgatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lamprophis virgatus (Hallowell, 1856) sec. Segniagbeto, Trape, David, Ohler, Dubois & Glitho, 2011
References
- MATSCHIE P. 1893. - Die Reptilien und Amphibien Togogebietes. Mittheilungen von Forschungsreisenden und Gelehrten aus den deutschen Schutzgebieten, mit Benutzung amtlicher Quellen 6: 207 - 215.
- 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.
- HULSELMANS J. L. J., DE VREE F. & VAN DER STRAETEN E. 1971. - Contribution a l'herpetologie de la Republique du Togo: liste preliminaire des serpents recoltes par la troisieme mission zoologique belge au Togo. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique africaines 84 (1 - 2): 46 - 49.