Aparallactus guentheri BOULENGER, 1895

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Higher Taxa	Atractaspididae (Aparallactinae), Elapoidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Black Centipede Eater
Synonym	Aparallactus guentheri BOULENGER 1895: 172 Aparallactus jacksonii — BOULENGER 1896: 259 Aparallactus uluguruensis BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE 1928 Aparallactus capensis uluguruensis — LOVERIDGE 1944 Aparallactus guentheri — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1947: 115 Aparallactus guentheri — BROADLEY 1959 Aparallactus guentheri — WELCH 1994: 17 Aparallactus guentheri — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 28 Aparallactus guentheri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 46 Aparallactus guentheri — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 452 Aparallactus guentheri — PIETERSEN et al. 2021
Distribution	E Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, N Mozambique, S Tanzania, Zanzibar Type locality: Lake Nyassa Shire Highlands and Zanzibar [= Lake Nyassa, E Malawi] via lectotype selection. uluguruensis: border of Kenya and Tanzania; Type locality: Nyange, Uluguru Mountains, Tanganyika Territory [= Tanzania]
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Lectotype: BMNH 1946.1.6.88, male (F. Finn) Holotype: MCZ 21014, 23363 [uluguruensis]
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Comment	Venomous! Synonymy partly after BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991. Listed under “Colubridae” by BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991. Distribution: not in Angola fide Branch 2018. Subspecies: the status of Aparallactus capensis uluguruensis is unclear (D. Meirte, pers. comm., 3 Feb 2014).
Etymology	Named after Albert Günther (1830-1914), German-born zoologist at the British Museum.
References	Barbour, T. & LOVERIDGE.A. 1928. A comparative study of the herpetological fauna of the Uluguru and Usambara mountains, Tanzania Territory with descriptions of new species. Mem. Mus. comp. Zool. Cambridge (Massachusetts), 50 (2): 85-265 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Boulenger,G.A. 1895. Descriptions of two new snakes from Usambara, German East Africa. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 16: 171-173 - get paper here Branch, William R. 1993. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 144 S. Broadley, D. & Blaylock 2013. The Snakes of Zimbabwe and Botswana. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 387 pp. [book review in Sauria 35 (2): 59 and Copeia 2014: 388] - get paper here Broadley, D. G. & HOWELL, K. M. 1991. A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70 Broadley, D.G. 1959. The herpetology of Southern Rhodesia. Part I--the snakes. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 120 (1): 1-100 [reprint 1972] - get paper here Broadley, D.G. 1962. On some reptile collections from the North-Western and North-Eastern Districts of Southern Rhodesia 1958-1961, with descriptions of four new lizards. Occ. Pap. Nat. Mus. South. Rhodesia 26 (B): 787-843 Loveridge,A. 1944. Further revisions of African snake genera. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 95 (2): 121-247 - get paper here Malonza, Patrick K.; David M. Mulwa, Joash O. Nyamache, Georgina Jones 2017. Biogeography of the Shimba Hills ecosystem herpetofauna in Kenya. Zoological Research 38(5): 1-11 - get paper here Pietersen, Darren, Verburgt, Luke & Davies, John 2021. Snakes and other reptiles of Zambia and Malawi. Struik Nature / Penguin Random House South Africa, 376 pp., ISBN 9781775847373 Rasmussen,J.B. 1981. The snakes from the rainforest of the Usambara Mountains, Tanzania: a checklist and key. Salamandra 17 (3-4): 173-188 - get paper here Spawls, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. 2002. A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 pp. [reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147] - get paper here Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon 2018. Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 pp. - get paper here Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams, Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp. Witte, G. F. de & Laurent,R.F. 1947. Revision d'un groupe de Colubridae africains: genres Calamelaps, Miodon, Aparallactus, et formes affines. Mém. Mus. Roy. Hist. Nat. Belgique (sér. 2) 29: 1-134 - get paper here Wyk, Kurt M van; Bryan Maritz & Bruce W Clegg 2025. Distribution and status of reptile species in south-eastern Zimbabwe. African Journal of Herpetology, 74:2, 210-270, - get paper here
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