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Aparallactus niger BOULENGER, 1897

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Higher TaxaAtractaspididae (Aparallactinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Black Centipede-eater 
SynonymAparallactus niger BOULENGER 1897: 154
Rouleophis chevalieri — CHABANAUD 1917: 12
Aparallactus niger — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1947: 106
Aparallactus niger — WELCH 1994: 17
Aparallactus niger — BÖHME et al. 2011: 60
Aparallactus niger — WALLACH et al. 2014: 48
Aparallactus niger — SENTER & CHIPPAUX 2022
Elapops niger — WALLACH 2025 
DistributionGuinea (Conakry), Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast

Type locality: Sierra Leone  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesType: BMNH 1946.1.6.89 (and possibly additional specimens). 
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CommentVenomous! 
EtymologyNamed after Latin niger, nigra, nigrum = black. 
References
  • 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. 1897. Description of a new snake from Sierra Leone. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 19: 154 - get paper here
  • Chabanaud,P. 1917. Note complémentaire sur les Ophidiens de l'Afrique occidentale, avec la description d'une espèce nouvelle. Bull. Mus. nation. Hist. nat., Paris, 23: 7-14 [9] - get paper here
  • 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
  • Menzies, J.I. 1966. The snakes of Sierra Leone. Copeia 1966 (2): 169-179. - get paper here
  • PAUWELS, OLIVIER; LAURENT CHIRIO & WOUTER DEKONINCK. 2022. Diet records for snakes from Guinea, West Africa. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 57(6): 117–123. - get paper here
  • Senter, P. J., & Chippaux, J. P. 2022. Biogeography of snakes in Liberia: Review and synthesis of current knowledge. Ghana Journal of Science, 63(1), 29-62 - get paper here
  • Trape, J.-F. 2023. Guide des serpents d’Afrique occidentale, centrale et d’Afrique du Nord. IRD Éditions, Marseille, 896 pp.
  • TRAPE, JEAN-FRANÇOIS & CELLOU BALDÉ 2014. A checklist of the snake fauna of Guinea, with taxonomic changes in the genera Philothamnus and Dipsadoboa (Colubridae) and a comparison with the snake fauna of some other West African countries. Zootaxa 3900 (3): 301–338 - 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.
  • Wallach,V. 1994. Aparallactus lineatus (Peters) and Aparallactus niger BOULENGER: two valid species from West Africa. Journal of Herpetology 28 (1): 95-99 - get paper here
  • 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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