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Eryx muelleri (BOULENGER, 1892)

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Higher TaxaBoidae (Erycinae, Erycidae), Henophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Müller’s sand boa
G: Sahara Sandboa 
SynonymGongylophis Muelleri BOULENGER 1892: 74
Eryx muelleri — BOULENGER 1893: 128
Eryse muelleri subniger ANGEL 1938
Gongylophis muelleri — TOKAR 1995
Gongylophis muelleri — MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 212
Gongylophis muelleri subniger — JONES 2004
Eryx muelleri — CHIRIO & INEICH 2006
Gongylophis muelleri — SEGNIAGBETO et al. 2012
Gongylophis muelleri — HUGHES 2013
Eryx muelleri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 289
Eryx muelleri — REYNOLDS & HENDERSON 2018: 35 
DistributionMauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea (Conakry), Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), Republic of South Sudan (RSS), Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic

Type locality: Sennar, Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), Republic of South Sudan (RSS).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 91.11.20.2, male 
Diagnosis 
CommentDistribution: not in Liberia (L. Chirio, pers. comm., 23 Aug 2013). Not in Sierra Leone fide TRAPE & BALDÉ 2014: 320.

Subspecies: Tokar 1995 found no geographically recognizable subspecies and treated subniger as a synonym of muelleri. 
Etymologynamed after Friedrich Müller (1834-1895), a friend and colleague of G.A. Boulenger, who worked as physician and zoologist in Basel. 
References
  • Andrijczuk, C. 2006. Das Verteidigungsverhalten der Sandboa Gongylophis muelleri (BOULENGER 1892), mit einigen Anmerkungen zur Taxonomie. Elaphe 14 (2): 52-56
  • Angel, F. 1938. Liste des reptiles de Mauritanie recueillis par la mission d'études de la biologie des Acridiens en 1936 et 1937. Description d'une sous-espèce nouvelle d'Eryx muelleri. Bull. Mus. nat. Hist. nat., Paris (sér.2) 10: 485-487. - get paper here
  • Aylmer, G. 1922. The Snakes of Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone Studies 5: 7-37
  • Barnett, Linda K. & Emms, Craig 2005. Common reptiles of The Gambia. Rare Repro, Hailsham, East Sussex, 24 pp.
  • 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. 1892. Description of a new snake from Nubia. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 9: 74-76 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - 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
  • Chirio, L. 2009. Inventaire des reptiles de la région de la Réserve de Biosphère Transfrontalière du W (Niger/Bénin/Burkina Faso: Afrique de l’Ouest). [Herpetological survey of the W Transfrontier Biosphere Reserve area (Niger/Benin/Burkina Faso: West Africa]. Bull. Soc. Herp. France (132): 13-41 - get paper here
  • Chirio, L. & Lebreton, M. 2007. Atlas des reptiles du Cameroun. MNHN, IRD, Paris 688 pp.
  • Chirio, Laurent and Ivan Ineich 2006. Biogeography of the reptiles of the Central African Republic. African Journal of Herpetology 55(1):23-59. - get paper here
  • Hughes, B. 2013. Snakes of Bénin, West Africa. Bull. Soc. Herp. France 144: 101-159
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  • Jones, C. 2004. Sand Boas. Reptilia (GB) (34): 12-23 - get paper here
  • Kluge A G 1993. Calabaria and the phylogeny of erycine snakes. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 107 (4): 293-351 - get paper here
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  • Sorensen, D. 1987. The genus Eryx. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 23(2):21-25 - get paper here
  • Spawls, Stephen; Tomáš Mazuch& Abubakr Mohammad 2023. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 pp. - get paper here
  • Tokar, A A. 1995. Taxonomic revision of the genus Gongylophis Wagler 1830: G. conicus (Schneider 1801) and G. muelleri Boulenger 1892 (Serpentes Boidae). Tropical Zoology 8 (2): 347-360. - get paper here
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  • Trape, Jean-François; Israël Demba Kodindo, Ali Sougoudi Djiddi, Joseph Mad-Toïngué & Clément Hinzoumbé Kerah 2020. The snakes of Chad: results of a field survey and annotated country-wide checklist. Bonn zoological Bulletin 69 (2): 367–393 - get paper here
  • Trape, Jean-François & Youssouph Mané 2017. The snakes of Mali. Bonn zoological Bulletin 66 (2): 107–133 - get paper here
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  • 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.
 
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