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Limaformosa guirali (MOCQUARD, 1887)

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Higher TaxaLamprophiidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Mocquard's File Snake 
SynonymHeterolepis guirali MOCQUARD 1887: 23
Heterolepis bicarinatus SAUVAGE 1884: 145 (non DUMÉRIL & BIBRON)
Simocephalus guirali – BOULENGER 1893: 346
Simocephalus baumanni STERNFELD 1908: 93 (fide HALLERMANN 2007)
Mehelya guirali – LÖNNBERG 1910
Mehelya (S.) baumanni – LÖNNBERG 1910
Simocephalus guirali — WITTE 1933
Mehelya guirali — LOVERID1939: 136
Simocephalus guirali — ROMER 1953
Mehelya guirali — TRAPE & ROUX-ESTÈVE 1995: 39
Mehelya guirali — BURGER et al. 2004
Gonionotophis guirali — KELLY et al. 2011
Mehelya guirali — SEGNIAGBETO et al. 2012: 344
Mehelya guirali — HUGHES 2013
Mehelya guirali — WALLACH et al. 2014: 425
Mehelya guirali — TRAPE & BALDÉ 2014
Limaformosa guirali — BROADLEY et al. 2018
Gonionotophis guirali — CHIPPAUX & JACKSON 2019: 214
Gonionotophis guirali — SENTER & CHIPPAUX 2022 
DistributionLiberia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin ?, Guinea (Conakry), Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, N Zaire, Gabon, Congo (Brazzaville) ?, Equatorial Guinea

Type locality: Niger River, Nigeria.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: MNHN-RA 1885.0580 (MNHN-RA 1885.0580A is the head skull of the same specimen) and MNHN-RA 1883.0591, one being an 1130 mm (SVL) and 1060 mm specimen (Lanchier and L. Guiral)
Holotype: ZMB 2197615 from Togo [Simocephalus baumanni] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1974 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentDistribution: Not listed by BROADLEY & POYNTON 1998 for Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire). Not reported from Benin according to ULLENBRUCH et al. 2010 but confirmed by HUGHES 2013. For a map with localities in Equatorial Guinea see SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS et al. 2022. 
EtymologyNamed after Leon Guiral (1858-1885), former French naval quartermaster and a member of de Brazza's expeditions in the French Congo. 
References
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  • Böhme, Wolfgang, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Christian Brede & Philipp Wagner 2011. The reptiles (Testudines, Squamata, Crocodylia) of the forested southeast of the Republic Guinea (Guinée forestière), with a country-wide checklist. Bonn zoological Bulletin 60 (1): 35-61 - 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
  • Broadley, Donald G.; Krystal A. Tolley, Werner Conradie, Sarah Wishart, Jean-François Trape, Marius Burger, Chifundera Kusamba, Ange-Ghislain Zassi-Boulou & Eli Greenbaum 2018. A phylogeny and genus-level revision of the African file snakes Gonionotophis Boulenger (Squamata: Lamprophiidae). African Journal of Herpetology, DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2018.1423578 - get paper here
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