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Aparallactus turneri LOVERIDGE, 1935

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Higher TaxaAtractaspididae (Aparallactinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Malindi Centipede-eater 
SynonymAparallactus turneri LOVERIDGE 1935: 9
Aparallactus turneri — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1947: 121
Aparallactus turneri — WELCH 1994: 17
Aparallactus turneri — SPAWLS et al. 2002: 424
Aparallactus turneri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 48
Aparallactus turneri — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 456 
Distributioncoastal Kenya

Type locality: Sokoki Forest, near Malindi, Coast Province, Kenya Colony  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 30117 (in catalogue as 39952) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Very closely related to A. werneri Boulenger of the Usambara and Uluguru Mountains, Tanganyika Territory. It maybe readily distinguished from that species by the fewer ventrals (120-139 as against 141-163 in werneri, the latter figures being based on scale counts of fifty specimens from seven localities, forty-three of the snakes are topotypes), different coloration, much smaller size (202 mm. maximum as against 354 mm. maximum). (Loveridge 1935)


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CommentVenomous! 
EtymologyNamed after H. J. AlIen Turner (1876-1953), a British taxidermist who lived in Kenya (1909-1953). He collected birds in East Africa (mainly Kenya) (1915-1917). 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Loveridge, A. 1935. Scientific results of an expedition to rain forest regions in Eastern Africa. I. New reptiles and amphibians from East Africa. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 79: 1- 19. - 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
  • 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
 
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