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Lycodonomorphus bicolor (GÜNTHER, 1893)

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Higher TaxaLamprophiidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Tanganyika (White-bellied) Water Snake 
SynonymGlypholycus bicolor GÜNTHER 1893: 629
Nerophidion hypsirhinoides WERNER 1924: 54 (fide SMITH 1928)
Glypholycus bicolor — LOVERIDGE 1937: 489
Lycodonomorphus bicolor — LOVERIDGE 1958: 9
Lycodonomorphus bicolor — BROADLEY 1998
Lycodonomorphus bicolor — BROADLEY et al. 2003: 132
Lycodonomorphus bicolor — WALLACH et al. 2014: 405
Lycodonomorphus bicolor — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 389 
DistributionE/S Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), W Tanzania (Shores of Lake Tanganyika), Zambia, Rwanda

Type locality: Lake Tanganyika.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesTypes: BMNH 1946.1.7.81-86 (and possibly additional specimens). 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy partly after Wallach 1988, Amphibia-Reptilia 9: 62. Chifundera 1990 gave Laurent 1950 as first describer.

Diet: mostly fish 
References
  • Broadley, D. G. & HOWELL, K. M. 1991. A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70
  • Broadley, D.G. 1998. The reptilian fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa). In: Schmidt, K.P. and Noble, G.K., Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo... [reprint of the 1919 and 1923 papers]. SSAR Facsimile reprints in Herpetology, 780 pp.
  • 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]
  • Chifundera, K. 1990. Snakes of Zaire and their bites. Afr. Stud. Monogr. (Kyoto) 10(3): 137-157.
  • 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
  • Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248
  • Günther, A. 1893. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1893: 629 - get paper here
  • Loveridge, Arthur 1937. Scientific Results of an Expedition to Rain Forest Regions in Eastern Africa. IX. Zoogeography and Itinerary. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 79 (9): 481-541. - get paper here
  • Loveridge,A. 1958. Revision of five african snake genera. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 119: 1-198 (141) - get paper here
  • Madsen, T. & M. Osterkamp 1982. Notes on the biology of the fish-eating snake Lycodonomorphus bicolor in Lake Tanganyika Journal of Herpetology 16 (2): 185-188. - get paper here
  • O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here
  • Pietersen, Darren, Verburgt, Luke & Davies, John 2021. Snakes and other reptiles of Zambia and Malawi. Struik Nature / Penguin Random House South Africa, 376 pp., ISBN 9781775847373
  • Smith, M.A. 1928. The status of some recently described genera and species of snakes. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (10) 1: 494-496 - get paper here
  • Spawls, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. 2002. A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 pp. [reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147] - get paper here
  • Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon 2018. Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 pp. - get paper here
  • 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.
  • Wallach,V. 1988. Status and redescription of the genus Padangia Werner, with comparative visceral data on Collorhabdium Smedley and other genera (Serpentes: Colubridae). Amphibia-Reptilia 9: 61-76 - get paper here
  • Werner, F. 1924. Neue oder wenig bekannte Schlangen aus dem Naturhistorischen Staatsmuseum in Wien. l. Teil. Sitzungsb. Ber. Akad. Wiss., Wien, Abt. l, 133: 29 - 56 - get paper here
 
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