Bitis arietans
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. — 16 specimens (MNHN 1989.0134, MNHN 1989.0259, MNHN 1989.0263, “ Togo ”, no precise locality; GHS-W 0208, Kolokope; GHS-W 0566, N’Gambi; GHS-W 1225, GHS-Togo 04, Agave; MRAC 29574, MRAC 29579, Kolokope; MRAC 29598, Tetetou; MRAC 29633, Togoville; MRAC 29737, Evou; MRAC 29738, Temedja; MRAC 29739, Kpalime; T 198, Alédjo; T 230, Bafilo).
MORPHOLOGY. — TL from 260 to 1047 mm; 29-34 MSR, keeled; 135-141 Ven, smooth; 19-28 Sc, paired; anal single; 14-15 supralabials; 15-16 infralabials; 14-15 scales surrounding the eye.
DISTRIBUTION. — This species inhabits savannahs and is present throughout the country. Previously it had been mentioned from Togo by Werner (1898), Sternfeld (1908b, 1909: 26), Hulselmans & Verheyen (1970), Hulselmans et al. (1970), Roman (1984), Spawls & Branch (1995) and David & Ineich (1999).
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- 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)
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MNHN, MRAC, T
- Family
- Viperidae
- Genus
- Bitis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- MNHN 1989.0134, MNHN 1989.0259, MNHN 1989.0263, MRAC 29574, MRAC 29579, MRAC 29598, MRAC 29633, MRAC 29737, MRAC 29738, MRAC 29739, T 198, T 230
- Order
- Squamata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Merrem
- Species
- arietans
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bitis arietans (Merrem, 1820) sec. Segniagbeto, Trape, David, Ohler, Dubois & Glitho, 2011
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.
- 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.