Aparallactus werneri BOULENGER, 1895

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Higher Taxa	Atractaspididae (Aparallactinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Usambara Centipede-eater
Synonym	Aparallactus werneri BOULENGER 1895: 172 Aparallactus werneri — BOULENGER 1896: 257 Aparallactus werneri — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1947: 120 Aparallactus werneri — RASMUSSEN 1981: 179 Aparallactus werneri — WELCH 1994: 17 Aparallactus werneri — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 28 Aparallactus werneri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 49 Aparallactus werneri — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 457
Distribution	E Tanzania (Usambara and Uluguru Mts.) Type locality: Usambara Mts., Tanzania.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Types: BMNH 1946.1.2.97-98 (and possibly additional specimens).
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Comment	Venomous! Genome: Roberts et al. 2024.
Etymology	Named after Professor Dr. Franz Josef Maria Werner (1867-1939), an Austrian explorer, zoologist, and herpetologist who worked at Naturhistorisches Museum Wien. See Antonius 1939 and Westersheim 1940 for biographical notes.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here 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 Rasmussen,J.B. 1981. The snakes from the rainforest of the Usambara Mountains, Tanzania: a checklist and key. Salamandra 17 (3-4): 173-188 - get paper here Roberts, Jackson R; Justin M Bernstein, Christopher C Austin, Taylor Hains, Joshua Mata, Michael Kieras, Stacy Pirro, Sara Ruane 2024. Whole Snake Genomes from Eighteen Families of Snakes (Serpentes: Caenophidia) and Their Applications to Systematics. Journal of Heredity, esae026 - get paper here Rovero, F., Menegon, M., Fjeldså, J., Collett, L., Doggart, N., Leonard, C., Norton, G., Owen, N., Perkin, A., Spitale, D., Ahrends, A., Burgess, N. D. 2014. Targeted vertebrate surveys enhance the faunal importance and improve explanatory models within the Eastern Arc Mountains of Kenya and Tanzania. Diversity and Distributions. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12246 - 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. Westersheim, Otto v. 1940. Franz Werner als Mensch und Forscher. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 51: 8-53 - 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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