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Polemon fulvicollis (MOCQUARD, 1887)

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Higher TaxaAtractaspididae (Aparallactinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
SubspeciesPolemon fulvicollis fulvicollis (MOCQUARD 1887)
Polemon fulvicollis laurenti RESETAR & MARX 1981 
Common NamesE: African Snake-eater 
SynonymMicrosoma fulvicollis MOCQUARD 1887: 65
Miodon fulvicollis fulvicollis — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1947: 75
Miodon fulvicollis — TRAPE & ROUX-ESTEVE 1990
Polemon fulvicollis fulvicollis — WELCH 1994: 99
Polemon fulvicollis — CHIRIO & LEBRETON 2007
Polemon fulvicollis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 573
Polemon fulvicollis — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 463

Polemon fulvicollis laurenti RESETAR & MARX 1981
Miodon gracilis DE WITTE & LAURENT 1943 (non BOULENGER)
Miodon filvicollis gracilis — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1943
Miodon fulvicollis gracilis — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1947: 76
Polemon fulvicollis laurenti RESETAR & MARX 1981 (nom. nov.)
Polemon fulvicollis laurenti — WELCH 1994: 99
Polemon fulvicollis laurenti — PAUWELS & COLYN 2023 
DistributionGabon, C/E Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Congo (Brazzaville), Uganda, Cameroon

fulvicollis: Gabon

laurenti: W Zaire

Type locality: Franceville, Congo  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 1886.0211, a 200 mm specimen (J. Savorgnan de Brazza)
Holotype: RMCA 4771 (also given as RGMC), collected by Bocq in 1926 [laurenti] 
Diagnosis 
CommentVenomous!

Synonyms: all 3 subspecies are synonyms of fulvicollis (fide V. WALLACH, pers. comm.). Miodon gracilis DE WITTE & LAURENT 1943 is preoccupied by Elapocalamus gracilis BOULENGER 1911.

Subspecies: Polemon fulvicollis graueri (STERNFELD 1908) is now considered a full species.

NCBI taxon ID: 2137775 [laurenti] 
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.
  • Kusamba, Chifundera; Alan Resetar, Van Wallach, Kasereka Lulengo and Zoltán T. Nagy. 2013. Mouthful of snake: An African snake-eater’s (Polemon fulvicollis graueri) large typhlopid prey. Herpetology Notes 6: 235-237.
  • Mocquard,M.F. 1887. Sur les ophidiens rapportés du Congo par la Mission de Brazza. Bull. Soc. Philomath. Paris (7) 11: 62-92 - get paper here
  • Pauwels, O. S. G., P. Carlino, L. Chirio and J.-L. Albert 2016. Miscellanea Herpetologica Gabonica IV. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 51: 73 - get paper here
  • Pauwels, O. S., & Colyn, M. 2023. On a Diverse Collection of Snakes from Amadjabe, Left Bank of the Congo River, Northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society, 58(3), 34-47 - get paper here
  • Pauwels, O.S.G. & Vande Weghe, J.P. 2008. Les reptiles du Gabon. Smithsonian Institution, Washington: 272 pp. - get paper here
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  • Resetar, A.R. & H. MARX 1981. A redescription and generic reallocation of the African colubrid snake Elapocalamus gracilis Boulenger with a discussion of the union of the brille and postocular shield. Journal of Herpetology 15 (1): 83-89. - 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
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