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Causus rhombeatus (LICHTENSTEIN, 1823)

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Higher TaxaViperidae, Viperinae, Serpentes (snakes) 
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Common or Rhombic Night Adder
G: Krötenotter 
SynonymSepedon rhombeata LICHTENSTEIN 1823: 106
Causus rhombeatus — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1854: 1265
Causus rhombeatus — SCHMIDT 1923: 132
Causus rhombeatus — AUERBACH 1987: 204
Causus rhombeatus — WELCH 1994: 41
Causus rhombeatus — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 233
Causus rhombeatus — LARGEN & SPAWLS 2010: 610 
DistributionAngola, Republic of South Africa, Natal, Swaziland, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Congo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Gambia (HÅKANSSON 1981), Namibia

Type locality: not given. Map legend:
TDWG region - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map.

NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and this does not always work properly. We are working on it.
 
TypesTYPE(S): Lost, according to G. Peters In Hughes and Barry, 1969 
CommentVenomous!

Distribution: not listed for Togo by Segniagbeto et al. 2012. Not in Mauritania according to Padial (2006). Not recorded from Gabon fide PAUWELS & VANDE WEGHE 2008 (but may have been confused in Gabon with C. maculatus). Reports from Gambia and Benin may be in fact Causus maculatus (see PAUWELS & MEIRTE 1996 and HUGHES 1977, ULLENBRUCH et al. 2010). 
References
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  • Barton, R. A. 1966. A Record Causus rhombeatus Jour. Herp. Ass. Afr. (2): 31-31 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G. A. 1897. A list of reptiles and batrachians from the Congo Free State, with the description of two new snakes. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 19: 276-281 - get paper here
  • Boycott, R.C. 1992. An Annotated Checklist of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Swaziland. The Conservation Trust of Swaziland, 1992; online at http://www.sntc.org.sz/checklst/sdreptam.html.
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  • Briscoe, M.S. 1949. Notes on Snakes Collected in Liberia. Copeia 1949 (1): 16-18 - get paper here
  • Broadley, D.G. 1959. The herpetology of Southern Rhodesia. Part I--the snakes Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 120 (1): 1-100 [reprint 1972] - get paper here
  • Broadley, D.G. 1991. The Herpetofauna of Northern Mwinilunga Distr., Northw. Zambia. Arnoldia Zimbabwe 9 (37): 519-538
  • Broadley, D.G.; Doria, C.T. & Wigge, J. 2003. Snakes of Zambia. An Atlas and Field Guide. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 280 pp. [review in Sauria 26 (3): 21]
  • Broadley, Donald G. and F. P. D. Cotterill. 2004. The reptiles of southeast Katanga, an overlooked 'hot spot'. [Congo] African Journal of Herpetology 53 (1): 35-61. - get paper here
  • Broadley,D.G. 1962. On some reptile collections from the North-Western and North-Eastern Districts of Southern Rhodesia 1958-1961, with descriptions of four new lizards. Occ. Pap. Nat. Mus. South. Rhodesia 26 (B): 787-843
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  • de Massary, Jean-Christophe; Ineich, I. 1994. Sepedon rhombeata Lichtenstein, 1823 (Serpentes, Viperidae) and its type locality. Journal of African Zoology 108 (5): 503
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  • Dobiey, M. & Vogel, G. 2007. Venomous Snakes of Africa/Giftschlangen Afrikas. Terralog 15, Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, 150 pp.
  • Duméril, A. M. C., BIBRON, G. & DUMÉRIL, A. H. A., 1854. Erpétologie générale ou histoire naturelle complète des reptiles. Tome septième. Deuxième partie, comprenant l'histoire des serpents venimeux. Paris, Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret: i-xii + 781-1536 - get paper here
  • Herrmann, Hans-Werner; Schmitz, Andreas; Herrmann, Patricia A. & Böhme, Wolfgang 2007. Amphibians and reptiles of the Tchabal Mbabo mountains, Adamaoua plateau, Cameroon. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 55 (1/2): 27-35 - get paper here
  • Herrmann,H. W.; Joger,U.; Lenk,P. & Wink,M. 1999. Morphological and molecular phylogenies of viperines: conflicting evidence?. Kaupia (Darmstadt) (8): 21-30 - get paper here
  • Hughes, B. 1977. Latitudinal clines and ecogeography of the West African Night Adder, Causus maculatus (Hallowell, 1842), Serpentes, Viperidae. Bull. IFAN. 39 (sér. A., no. 2): 358-384
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