Lycophidion namibianum BROADLEY, 1991
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Higher Taxa | Lamprophiidae, Lamprophiinae, Colubroidea, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
Subspecies | |
Common Names | Namibian Wolf Snake |
Synonym | Lycophidion namibianum BROADLEY 1991 Lycophidion hellmichi HAACKE 1970: 281 (not LAURENT) Lycophidion semicinctum PETERS 1867: 36 (not DUMÉRIL & BIBRON) Lycophidion capense capense — MERTENS 1955 (not A. SMITH), part. Lycophidion namibianum — BRANCH 1993: 20 Lycophidion namibianum — BROADLEY 1996 Lycophidion namibianum — WALLACH et al. 2014: 410 |
Distribution | Namibia
Type locality: west of Usakos, Karibib District, Namibia.
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Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Holotype: TM 52730 |
Diagnosis | |
Comment | Synonymy after BROADLEY 1991.
Map: Broadley 1996 |
Etymology | |
References |
- Branch, William R. 1993. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 144 S.
- Broadley D G. 1991. A review of the Namibian snakes of the genus Lycophidion (Serpentes: Colubridae), with the description of a new endemic species. Annals Transvaal Mus. 35 (14): 209-215 - get paper here
- Broadley, D.G. 1996. A revision of the genus Lycophidion Fitzinger (Serpentes: Colubridae) in Africa south of the equator. Syntarsus 3: 1-33.
- Haacke, W. D. 1970. New herpetological records from South West Africa. Ann. Transvaal Mus.26 (12): 277-283 - get paper here
- Herrmann, H.-W.; W.R. Branch 2013. Fifty years of herpetological research in the Namib Desert and Namibia with an updated and annotated species checklist. Journal of Arid Environments 93: 94–115 - get paper here
- Hörold, R. 2018. Hausschlangen – versteckte Vielfalt Reptilia 23 (129): 16-22
- Mertens,R. 1955. Die Herpetofauna Südwestafrikas. Abh. senckenb. naturf. Ges., Frankfurt, 529: 1-110
- Peters, Wilhem Carl Hartwig 1867. Über eine Sammlung von Flederthieren und Amphibien aus Otjimbingue in Südwestafrica, welche Hr. Missionär Hahn dem zoologischen Museum zugesandt hat. Monatsber. königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin. 1867 (April): 234-237 - get paper here
- Schleicher, Alfred 2015. Reptilien Namibias. Namibia Scientific Society, 276 pp.
- 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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