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Boaedon virgatus (HALLOWELL, 1854)

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Higher TaxaLamprophiidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Hallowell's House Snake, Dark-bellied House Snake 
SynonymCoelopeltis virgata HALLOWELL 1854: 98
Boaedon nigrum FISCHER 1856: 91
Boodon ventralis GÜNTHER 1888: 329
Boodon virgatus — BOULENGER 1893: 331
Boaedon lineatus virgatus — LOVERIDGE 1941: 120
Boaedon virgatum — MENZIES 1966
Boaedon virgatum — HÅKANSSON 1981
Lamprophis virgatus — LAWSON 1993
Boaedon virgatus — RÖDEL & MAHSBERG 2000: 28
Lamprophis virgatus — PAUWELS et al. 2002
Boaedon virgatus — KELLY et al. 2011
Lamprophis virgatus — SEGNIAGBETO et al. 2012
Lamprophis virgatus — HUGHES 2013
Boaedon virgatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 97
Boaedon virgatus — SENTER & CHIPPAUX 2022 
DistributionGuinea (Conakry), Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin ?, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, W Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Congo (Brazzaville), Gambia (HÅKANSSON 1981), Sierra Leone
São Tomé, Principe (www.triplov.com, see URL below).

Type locality: “Liberia, west coast of Africa” (Hallowell 1854); “Gaboon” fide Malnate 1971.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: ANSP 10260-62 (3), collected or presented by “Dr. Ford”. 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (854 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentTypes: ANSP 10260-62 are the same specimens as the types of Boaedon quadrivirgatum Hallowell. Type of Boaedon nigrum: ZMH R08378 (from São Tomé).

Distribution: For a map with localities in Equatorial Guinea see SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS et al. 2022. Not reported from Benin according to ULLENBRUCH et al. 2010. 
References
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  • Böhme, Wolfgang, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Christian Brede & Philipp Wagner 2011. The reptiles (Testudines, Squamata, Crocodylia) of the forested southeast of the Republic Guinea (Guinée forestière), with a country-wide checklist. Bonn zoological Bulletin 60 (1): 35-61 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here
  • Chifundera, K. 1990. Snakes of Zaire and their bites. Afr. Stud. Monogr. (Kyoto) 10(3): 137-157.
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  • Chirio, L. & Lebreton, M. 2007. Atlas des reptiles du Cameroun. MNHN, IRD, Paris 688 pp.
  • Fischer, J.G. 1856. Neue Schlangen des Hamburgischen Naturhistorischen Museums. Abhandl. Nat. Ver. Hamburg 3 (4): 79-116 - get paper here
  • Greenbaum, Eli; Frank Portillo, Kate Jackson & Chifundera Kusamba 2015. A phylogeny of Central African Boaedon (Serpentes: Lamprophiidae), with the description of a new cryptic species from the Albertine Rift. African Journal of Herpetology 64 (1): 18–38 - get paper here
  • Günther,A. 1888. Contribution to the knowledge of snakes of tropical Africa. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 1: 322-335 - get paper here
  • Håkansson,N.T. 1981. An annotated checklist of reptiles known to occur in the Gambia. Journal of Herpetology 15 (2): 155-161 - get paper here
  • Hallowell,E. 1854. Remarks on the geographical distribution of reptiles, with descriptions of several species supposed to be new, and corrections of former papers. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1854: 98-105 - get paper here
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  • Lawson, Dwight P. 1993. The reptiles and amphibians of the Korup National Park Project, Cameroon. Herpetological Natural History 1 (2): 27-90
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