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Dasypeltis fasciata SMITH, 1849

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Western Forest Eggeater, Central African Egg-eating Snake
G: Gestreifte Eierschlange, Westafrikanische Eierschlange, Wald-Eierschlange 
SynonymDasypeltis fasciatus SMITH 1849: 73
Dipsas carinatus HALLOWELL 1844: 119 (non Dipsas carinata SCHLEGEL 1837)
Dipsas carinatus – HALLOWELL 1857: 69
Dasypeltis palmarum GRAY 1858: 161 (part.)
Rachiodon subfasciatus DUMÉRIL 1860
Rachiodon scaber var. subfasciatus JAN 1863: 106 (nom. nud.)
Rachiodon scaber – MÜLLER 1885: 683
Dasypeltis scabra var. fasciata – MOCQUARD 1887: 81
Dasypeltis macrops BOULENGER 1907: 324
Dasypeltis macrops — SCHMIDT 1923: 100 (fide GANS 1959)
Dasypeltis macrops — LOVERIDGE 1938: 58
Dasypeltis scaber macrops – BOGERT 1940: 85
Dasypeltis scaber fasciatus — LOVERIDGE 1942
Dasypeltis fasciata — LOVERIDGE 1957: 289
Dasypeltis fasciata — GANS 1959: 137
Dasypeltis fasciata — GANS 1961: 73
Dasypeltis fasciata — PITMAN 1974: 121
Dasypeltis palmarus — CHIFUNDERA 1990
Dasypeltis macrops — LEBRETON 1999
Dasypeltis fasciata — RÖDEL & MAHSBERG 2000
Dasypeltis fasciata — BÖHME et al. 2011: 58
Dasypeltis fasciata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 210
Dasypeltis fasciata — BATES & BROADLEY 2018: 37
Dasypeltis fasciata — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 518 
DistributionW Uganda, W/C/E Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Congo (Brazzaville), Central African Republic, S Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, Togo, Gabon (Pauwels et al. 2006), Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea (Conakry) (fide Bates & Broadley 2018 but not there fide Göthel 2015), Republic of South Sudan (RSS) ?, Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), Equatorial Guinea

Type locality: Africa; “Sierra Leone” fide SCHILLERT 2004.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesTypes: BMNH 1946.1.15.17-18 (and possibly additional specimens).
Holotype: ANSP 5214; Liberia [Dipsas carinatus Hallowell] 
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CommentIllustration: photograph in Chippaux (1999 and 2001) is actually D. scabra (fide PAUWELS & BRANCH in HR 34: 272).

Authorship: Chifundera (1990) gave Leach 1818 as first describer of D. palmarum.

Distribution: Not reported from Benin according to ULLENBRUCH et al. 2010, but probably present there (Hughes 2013). See map in GÖTHEL 2015: 19. Not in Senegal, Gambia, Mali fide Göthel 2015: 19, Bates & Broadley 2018. For a map with localities in Equatorial Guinea see SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS et al. 2022.

Habitat. Lowland forest at elevations of about 1000 m to 1147 m (Katera). 
EtymologyNamed after Latin fascia = band, for the dorsal stripes or bands in this species. 
References
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