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Amblyodipsas unicolor (REINHARDT, 1843)

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Higher TaxaAtractaspididae (Aparallactinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Dull Purple-glossed Snake, Western Purple-glossed Snake 
SynonymCalamaria unicolor REINHARDT 1843
Calamelaps feae BOULENGER 1906: 214
Calamelaps unicolor — SCHMIDT 1923: 116
Calamelaps niangarae SCHMIDT 1923: 117 (fide BROADLEY 1971)
Calamelaps unicolor unicolor — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1947
Calamelaps feae — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1947
Calamelaps unicolor — LOVERIDGE 1957: 281
Calamelaps unicolor — AYLMER 1922 (fide MENZIES 1966)
Amblyodipsas unicolor — BROADLEY 1971
Amblyodipsas (Calamelaps) unicolor — PAUWELS & MEIRTE 1996
Amblyodipsas unicolor — RÖDEL et al. 1999
Amblyodipsas unicolor — SPAWLS et al. 2002: 434
Amblyodipsas unicolor — TRAPE & BALDÉ 2014
Amblyodipsas unicolor — WALLACH et al. 2014: 27
Amblyodipsas unicolor — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 470 
DistributionCentral African Republic, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ivory Coast (RÖDEL et al. 1999), W/N Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Gambia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Niger ?, Mali, Chad, Benin, Togo, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Republic of South Sudan (RSS) ?, Sudan (Jumhūriyyat)

Type locality: Guinea Coast (= Ghana).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: lost, according to Dr. F. W. Braestrup (Hughes & Barry, 1969: 1024).
Holotype: MSNG 28145 [feae] 
Diagnosis 
CommentVenomous!

Distribution: Not listed for Tanzania by BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991. Not in Niger fide Trape & Mané 2015. 
References
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