Lycodonomorphus subtaeniatus LAURENT, 1954
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Higher Taxa | Lamprophiidae, Lamprophiinae, Colubroidea, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Common Names | E: Eastern Congo White-bellied Water-Snake, Lined Water Snake |
Synonym | Lycodonomorphus subtaeniatus LAURENT 1954: 38 Lycodonomorphus subtaeniatus — BROADLEY 1998 Lycodonomorphus subtaeniatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 407 Lycodonomorphus subtaeniatus — GREENBAUM et al. 2015 |
Distribution | N Angola, W/C/S Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Congo (Brazzaville) ?; Type locality: Keseki, near Kwamouth, Belgian Congo.
Type locality: “Keseki, près de Kwamouth”
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Reproduction | oviparous. |
Types | Holotype: MRAC (was RGMC) 14864, female; paratypes: RGMC |
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Comment | Subspecies: Lycodonomorphus subtaeniatus upembae LAURENT 1954 has been elevated to full species and transferred to Boaedon by GREENBAUM et al. 2015. |
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References |
- 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, Donald G. and F. P. D. Cotterill. 2004. The reptiles of southeast Katanga, an overlooked 'hot spot'. [Congo]. African Journal of Herpetology 53 (1): 35-61. - get paper here
- Chifundera, K. 1990. Snakes of Zaire and their bites. Afr. Stud. Monogr. (Kyoto) 10(3): 137-157.
- Greenbaum, Eli; Frank Portillo, Kate Jackson & Chifundera Kusamba 2015. A phylogeny of Central African Boaedon (Serpentes: Lamprophiidae), with the description of a new cryptic species from the Albertine Rift. African Journal of Herpetology 64 (1): 18–38 - get paper here
- Laurent, RAYMOND F. 1954. Reptiles et batraciens de la région de Dundo (Angola) (Deuxième note). Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang), Serviços Culturais, Publicações Culturais, No. 23: 37-84
- Loveridge,A. 1958. Revision of five african snake genera. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 119: 1-198 (141) - get paper here
- Marques, Mariana P.; Luis M. P. Ceríaco , David C. Blackburn , and Aaron M. Bauer 2018. Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola -- Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840–2017). Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (Ser. 4) 65: 1-501 (Supplement II)
- Trape, J.F. & R. ROUX-ESTÈVE 1995. Les serpents du Congo: liste commentée et clé de détermination. Journal of African Zoology 109 (1): 31-50
- 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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