Elapsoidea chelazziorum LANZA, 1979
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Elapsoidea chelazziorum
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| Higher Taxa | Elapidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Somali Garter Snake |
| Synonym | Elapsoidea chelazzii LANZA 1979: 238 Elapsoidea chelazziorum — LANZA 1990 Elapsoidea chelazzii — WELCH 1994: 59 Elapsoidea chelazziorum — DOBIEY & VOGEL 2007 Elapsoidea chelazziorum — WALLACH et al. 2014: 266 |
| Distribution | Somalia Type locality: “about 6 km E of Afgoi (about 02° 06’ N, 45° 11’ E), SE Somalia”. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: MZUF 21964 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: “An apparently small-sized (body length of the only known adult specimen = 415 mm) Elapsoidea with: head strongly depressed (head length, from snout to end of parietals: head depth = 1.95), rather small in the adult (head length 3.46% of the snout-vent length); snout obtusely pointed, with rostral broadly visible from above; eye relatively large, its vertical diameter greater than its distance from the upper lip; 13 scale rows at midbody and just before the vent, 15 one head length behind the head; 136 (female )-141 (male) ventral plates; tail rather short, 8.07 (male)-8.43 (female)% of the snout-vent length, with 17 (female)-21 (male) paired subcaudals; chin region more (adult) or less (juvenile) grey; juveniles with whitish pileus and unhanded, uniformly black dorsal parts.” (Lanza 1990) |
| Comment | Venomous! |
| Etymology | Named after Dr Lorenzo Chelazzi (Centro di Studio per la Faunistica ed Ecologia Tropicali del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Firenze) and Dr Guido Chelazzi (Istituto di Zoologia dell'Universita, Firenze), in recognition of their painstaking and valuable scientific research on the Somali fauna and ecology. |
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