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Chamaelycus fasciatus
Description
Chamaelycus fasciatus (Günther, 1858)
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Alopecion fasciatum Günther, 1858: 196. Type locality: “ West Africa ”.
Lycophidium fasciatum (Günther, 1858): Boulenger 1893: 342.
Oophilositum fasciatum (Günther, 1858): Parker 1933: 545.
Chamaelycus fasciatus (Günther, 1858): Witte 1963: 635.
Distribution. It extends from Senegal to the East of Democratic Republic of the Congo. In Equatorial Guinea it has been reported in Bioko at Bahía de San Carlos and Musola (Boulenger 1906; Capocaccia 1961a) (Map 32B).
Comments. We provide the first record of this species for Río Muni.
Specimens examined. One specimen. Río Muni: San Joaquín de Ndyiacom, October 1987 (EBD 27765).
Notes
Published as part of Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto, Calvo-Revuelta, Marta & Riva, Ignacio De La, 2022, Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea, pp. 1-197 in Zootaxa 5202 (1) on page 113, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5202.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7285600
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lamprophiidae
- Genus
- Chamaelycus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Squamata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Species
- fasciatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chamaelycus fasciatus (Gunther, 1858) sec. Sánchez-Vialas, Calvo-Revuelta & Riva, 2022
References
- Gunther, A. (1858) Catalogue of Colubrine Snakes of the British Museum. Trustees, London, XVI + 281 pp.
- Boulenger, G. A. (1893) Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1. Trustees, London, xiii + 448 pp., 28 pls.
- Parker, H. W. (1933) Some West African snakes. Journal of Natural History, 12 (71), 544 - 548. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933308673718
- Witte, G. F. (1963) The colubrid snake genera Chamaelycus Boulenger and Oophilositum Parker. Copeia, 1963 (4), 634 - 636. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1440964
- Boulenger, G. A. (1906) Report on the reptiles collected by the late L. Fea in West Africa. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 3 (2), 196 - 216.
- Capocaccia, L. (1961 a) Contributo allo studio dei serpenti delle isole del Golfo di Guinea. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria, 72, 285 - 309.