Published September 30, 2011 | Version v1
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Atheris squamigera

  • 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

Atheris squamigera (Hallowell, 1854)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — No available specimen.

DISTRIBUTION. — Werner (1898) recorded four specimens of this species from Togo. Ernst & Rödel (2002) confirmed the presence of this species in Togo on the basis of a specimen deposited in ZMB (ZMB 13777) and collected in “ Togo ” (no specified locality). If it really originates from the country as currently defined, this specimen would represent the westernmost locality of this arboreal viper which is otherwise characteristic of the forests of Central Africa. Additional collection would allow us to confirm the occurrence of this species within the modern borders of Togo.

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

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References

  • WERNER F. 1898. - Uber Reptilien und Batrachier aus Togoland, Kamerun undTunis dem Kgl. Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin. Verhandlungen der kaiserlichkoniglichen Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft inWien 58: 191 - 230, 1 plate.
  • ERNST R. & RODEL M. - O. 2002. - A new Atheris species (Serpentes: Viperidae), from Tai National Park, Ivory Coast. Herpetological Journal 12: 55 - 61.