Polemon robustus (DE WITTE & LAURENT, 1943)

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Higher Taxa	Atractaspididae (Aparallactinae), Elapoidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Zaire Snake-eater
Synonym	Miodon robustus DE WITTE & LAURENT 1943: 62 Miodon robustus — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1947: 62 Miodon robustus — LAURENT 1958: 123 Polemon robustus — WELCH 1994: 99 Polemon robustus — CHIRIO & INEICH 2006 Polemon robustus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 573 Polemon robustus — CHIPPAUX & JACKSON 2019: 184
Distribution	C Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Central African Republic, Congo (Brazzaville) ? Type locality: "Bolobo (Congo belge: Distr. du Lac Léopold II), Congo belge." [=Boldoo, extreme northwestern Bandundu Region, extreme west-central Zaire, 2˚10'S, 16˚14'E].
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: RMCA (= MRAC) 9829, a 645 mm female (H. Schouteden, 1934).
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Comment	Venomous! (but apparently not dangerous, not mentioned by Spawls & Branch 2020) Sometimes cited as WITTE & LAURENT 1943. Probably occurs int he Congo too (TRAPE & ROUX-ESTÈVE 1995)
Etymology	From the Latin robustus (strong like an oak).
References	Broadley, D.G. 1998. The reptilian fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa). In: Schmidt, K.P. and Noble, G.K., Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo... [reprint of the 1919 and 1923 papers]. SSAR Facsimile reprints in Herpetology, 780 pp. Chifundera, K. 1990. Snakes of Zaire and their bites. Afr. Stud. Monogr. (Kyoto) 10(3): 137-157. Chippaux, Jean-Philippe & Kate Jackson 2019. Snakes of Central and Western Africa. Johns Hopkins University Press, 448 pp. [detaileld review in HR 51 (1): 161] - get paper here Chirio, Laurent and Ivan Ineich 2006. Biogeography of the reptiles of the Central African Republic. African Journal of Herpetology 55(1):23-59. - get paper here Laurent, R.F. 1958. Notes herpétologiques africaines II. Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 58 (1–2): 115–128 Trape, J.-F. 2023. Guide des serpents d’Afrique occidentale, centrale et d’Afrique du Nord. IRD Éditions, Marseille, 896 pp. Trape, J.F. & R. ROUX-ESTÈVE 1995. Les serpents du Congo: liste commentée et clé de détermination. Journal of African Zoology 109 (1): 31-50 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. 1943. Contribution à la systématique des Boiginae du Congo Belge (Rept.) [and errata slip]. Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr. 37: 157-189 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
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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