Polemon notatus (PETERS, 1882)

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Higher Taxa	Atractaspididae (Aparallactinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Microsoma notatum PETERS 1882: 127 Cynodontophis aemulans WERNER 1902 Cynodontophis notatus aemulans — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1947: 89 Cynodontophis notatus notatus — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1947: 87 Cynodontophis notatus aemulans — TRAPE 1985 Polemon notatus aemulans — TRAPE & ROUX-ESTÈVE 1995: 43 Polemon notatum — BAUER et al. 1995: 68 Polemon (Cynodontophis) notatus — LEBRETON 1999 Polemon notatus — CHIRIO & INEICH 2006 Polemon notatus — PAUWELS & VANDE WEGHE 2008 Polemon notatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 573 Polemon notatus — CHIPPAUX & JACKSON 2019: 182
Distribution	Cameroon, Gabon, W/C Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea notatum: Cameroon, Congo (Brazzaville), Gabon. Type locality: “nicht bekannt”. aemulans: Congo (Brazzaville), Zaire
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: ZMB 10271
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (991 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Venomous! Distribution: For a map with localities in Equatorial Guinea see SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS et al. 2022.
References	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 Chirio, L. & Lebreton, M. 2007. Atlas des reptiles du Cameroun. MNHN, IRD, Paris 688 pp. Chirio, Laurent and Ivan Ineich 2006. Biogeography of the reptiles of the Central African Republic. African Journal of Herpetology 55(1):23-59. - get paper here LeBreton, Matthew 1999. A working checklist of the herpetofauna of Cameroon. Netherlands Committee for IUCN, 160 pp. Pauwels, O.S.G. & Vande Weghe, J.P. 2008. Les reptiles du Gabon. Smithsonian Institution, Washington: 272 pp. - get paper here Peters, Wilhem Carl Hartwig 1882. Den Namen der Batrachiergattung Hylonomus in Hyloscirtus zu ändern und legte zwei neue Arten von Schlangen, Microsoma notatum, und Liophis ygraecum. Sitzungsber. Ges. naturf. Freunde Berlin 1882 (8): 127-129 - get paper here SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS, A., CALVO-REVUELTA, M. & DE LA RIVA, I. 2022. Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea. Zootaxa 5202 (1): 1-197 - get paper here Trape, J. F. 1985. Les serpents de la region de Dimonika (Mayombe, Republique Popilaire du Congo. Revue de zoologie africaine 99 (2): 135-140 Trape, J.-F. 2023. Guide des serpents d’Afrique occidentale, centrale et d’Afrique du Nord. IRD Éditions, Marseille, 896 pp. 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. Werner, F. 1902. Über westafrikanische Reptilien. Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien 52: 332-348 Witte, G. F. de & LAURENT,R.F. 1947. Revision d'un groupe de Colubridae africains: genres Calamelaps, Miodon, Aparallactus, et formes affines. Mém. Mus. Roy. Hist. Nat. Belgique (sér. 2) 29: 1-134 Zassi-Boulou, Ange Ghislain; Joseph Goma Tchimbakala, Lise Bethy Mavoungou, and Kate Jackson 2020. A Survey of Snakes in the Patte d’Oie Forest Reserve (Brazzaville, Republic of Congo): an Urban Snake Community in Central Africa. Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 15 (1): - get paper here
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