Ogmodon vitianus PETERS, 1864
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Higher Taxa | Elapidae (Hydrophiinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
Subspecies | |
Common Names | E: Fijian ground snake, Fiji Cobra, bola |
Synonym | Ogmodon vitianus PETERS 1864: 275 Labionaris Filholii BROCCHI 1876: 94 Ogmodon vitianus — WELCH 1994: 93 Ogmodon vitianus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 491 |
Distribution | Fiji (Viti-Levu)
Type locality: “auf den höchsten Gebirgen der Fidji-Insel Viti-Levu”
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Reproduction | oviparous, females produce 2-3 eggs. |
Types | Lectotype: ZMB 5118 (designated by ZUG & INEICH 1993) Paralectotype: ZMB 5043 |
Diagnosis | |
Comment | Synonymy: after ZUG & INEICH 1993.
Venomous!
Type species: Ogmodon vitianus PETERS 1864 is the type species of the genus Ogmodon PETERS 1864.
Habitat: fossorial in forest soils of mountain valleys.
Diet: earthworms and soft-bodies insects and their larvae. |
References |
- Gorham, S. 1970. The rare Fiji snake Ogmodon vitianus Peters. Fiji Agricultural Journal 32:49-51
- Morrison, C. 2003. A Field Guide to the Herpetofauna of Fiji. Suva, Fiji: Institute of Applied Sciences, University of the South Pacific, 121 pp.
- O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here
- Peters, W. 1864. Über neue Amphibien (Typhloscincus, Typhlops, Asthenodipsas, Ogmodon). Mber. k. preuss. Akad. Wiss.,Berlin: 271-276. - get paper here
- Ukuwela, K.D.B., de Silva, A., Sivaruban, A. et al. 2022. Diversity, distribution, and natural history of the marine snakes of Sri Lanka. Marine Biodiversity 52, 24 (2022) - 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.
- Zug G R. Ineich I. 1993. Review of the biology and morphology of the Fijian bola Ogmodon vitianus (Elapidae). The Snake 25 (1): 9-20
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