| Higher Taxa | Atractaspididae (Aparallactinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Jackson’s centipede-eater |
| Synonym | Uriechis jacksonii GÜNTHER 1888: 325
Aparallactus jacksonii — BOULENGER 1895: 172
Aparallactus jacksonii — BOULENGER 1896: 256
Aparallactus jacksonii — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1947: 118
Aparallactus jacksonii oweni LOVERIDGE 1955: 51
Aparallactus jacksonii oweni — PITMAN 1974
Aparallactus jacksonii — WELCH 1994: 17
Aparallactus jacksonii jacksonii — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 28
Aparallactus jacksonii — LARGEN & SPAWLS 2010: 582
Aparallactus jacksonii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 47
Aparallactus jacksonii — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 453 |
| Distribution | Ethiopia, N Tanzania, Republic of South Sudan (RSS), Kenya, Somalia, Uganda
Type locality: Foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania.
oweni: S Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), Republic of South Sudan (RSS), probably N uganda; Type locality: “Torit, Equatoria Province, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), Republic of South Sudan (RSS)”
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| Reproduction | Viviparous |
| Types | Type: BMNH 1946.1.6.80 (and possibly additional specimens).
Holotype: MCZ 53490 (or 3490), adult female; paratypes: MCZ (2 males, 5 females) [oweni] |
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| Comment | Venomous!
Subspecies: Lanza 1988, 1990 suggested that Aparallactus jacksonii oweni is a valid species. It differs from jacksonii by its higher number of ventrals and subcaudals (jacksoni: 138-143 in males, 142-157 in females; oweni: 151-154 in males, 161-166 in females, fide LOVERIDGE 1955: 51). |
| Etymology | Named after Sir Frederick John Jackson (1859-1929), English administrator, diplomat, explorer, naturalist, ornithologist, and the first Governor of the new Kenya colony (1889), and later Governor of Uganda (1911-1918). |
| References |
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- Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis), xiv + 727 pp. - 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
- Broadley, D. G. & HOWELL, K. M. 1991. A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70
- Günther,A. 1888. Contribution to the knowledge of snakes of tropical Africa. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 1: 322-335 - get paper here
- Lanza, B. 1983. A list of the Somali amphibians and reptiles. MONITORE ZOOLOGICO ITALIANO, new Ser., SUPPL. 18 (8): 193-247 - get paper here
- Lanza, B. 1990. Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography. Biogeographia, 14: 407-465 [1988] - get paper here
- Largen, M.J.; Spawls, S. 2010. Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 694 pp.
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- Loveridge, A. 1956. On snakes collected in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by J.S. Owen, Esq. Sudan Notes Rec. 36: 37-56 [1955]
- Loveridge, Arthur 1929. East African reptiles and amphibians in the United States National Museum. Bull. US Natl. Mus. (151): 1-135 - get paper here
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- Pitman,C.R.S. 1974. A guide to the snakes of Uganda. Codicote, Wheldon & Wesley, L., 290 pp.
- 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, Stephen; Tomáš Mazuch & Abubakr Mohammad 2023. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 pp. - get paper here
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- 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
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