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Prosymna angolensis BOULENGER, 1915

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Higher TaxaProsymnidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Angolan Shovel-snout snake
Portuguese: Cobra-de-focinho-de-pá-de- Angola 
SynonymProsymna angolensis BOULENGER 1915: 208
Prosymna angolensis — LOVERIDGE 1958: 149
Prosymna angolensis — AUERBACH 1987: 178
Prosymna angolensis — MARAIS 2004
Prosymna angolensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 579
Prosymna angolensis — CONRADIE et al. 2021
Prosymna frontalis — BOCAGE 1873: 218
Prosymna frontalis — BOCAGE 1882: 288
Prosymna frontalis — BOCAGE 1895: 98
Prosymna frontalis — BOULENGER 1894: 248
Prosymna frontalis — BOULENGER 1896: 641
Prosymna ambigua — MONARD 1931: 104
Prosymna ambigua — MONARD 1937: 123
Prosymna ambigua — MERTENS 1937: 13.
Prosymna ambigua ambigua — MERTENS 1938: 439
Prosymna ambigua ambigua — LOVERIDGE 1958: 151
Prosymna angolensis — BOULENGER 1915: 208
Prosymna angolensis — CHABANAUD 1916: 439
Prosymna angolensis — MONARD 1937: 114
Prosymna angolensis — BOGERT 1940: 59
Prosymna angolensis — MERTENS 1955: 94
Prosymna angolensis — MERTENS 1971: 86
Prosymna angolensis — HELLMICH 1957: 66
Prosymna angolensis — LOVERIDGE 1958: 149
Prosymna angolensis — FITZSIMONS 1962: 161
Prosymna angolensis — FITZSIMONS 1966: 53
Prosymna angolensis — FITZSIMONS 1970: 104
Prosymna angolensis — PIETERSEN et al. 2021 
DistributionNC and NE Namibia, WC Angola, Zambia, N Botswana, NW Zimbabwe

Type locality: none given by BOULENGER; designated as “Huila, 15°5' S, 13°30' E, Angola” by LOVERIDGE 1958.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesNeotype, NMW 19275b, a 182 mm male, designated by Broadley, 1980: 497. Additional specimens: MBL, NMW, CHL, USBN, MCZ, SAM, SMF, UM, NMZB, CAS. 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy: mostly after Conradie et al. 2022, who have even more chresnomys and the pertinent references.

Apparently not listed in the Zoological Record of 1915-1916. 
EtymologyNamed after its distribution in Angola. 
References
  • Auerbach, R.D. 1987. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Botswana. Mokwepa Consultants, Botswana, 295 pp.
  • Baptista NL, António T, Branch WR. 2019. The herpetofauna of Bicuar National Park and surroundings, southwestern Angola: a preliminary checklist. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13(2) [Special Section]: 96–130 (e203) - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G. A. 1915. A list of the snakes of the Belgian and Portuguese Congo, northern Rhodesia, and Angola. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1915: 193-223 - get paper here
  • Broadley, D. & Blaylock 2013. The Snakes of Zimbabwe and Botswana. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 387 pp. [book review in Sauria 35 (2): 59 and Copeia 2014: 388] - get paper here
  • Broadley, D.G. 1980. A Revision of the African snake genus Prosymna Gray (Colubridae). Occ.Pap.natl.Mus.Rhod. 6 (7): 481-556
  • Broadley, D.G. 1980. A revision of the African snake genus Prosymna Gray. Bull. Mus. natl. Hist. nat., Paris 22: 362-382
  • Broadley, D.G. 1995. Geographical Distribution - Prosymna angolensis. African Herp News (23): 48-48 - get paper here
  • Broadley, D.G.; Doria, C.T. & Wigge, J. 2003. Snakes of Zambia. An Atlas and Field Guide. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 280 pp. [review in Sauria 26 (3): 21]
  • 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
  • Conradie W and Branch WR. 2016. The herpetofauna of the Cubango, Cuito, and lower Cuando river catchments of south-eastern Angola. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 10 (2) [Special Section]: 6–36 - get paper here
  • Conradie W, Keates C, Baptista NL, Lobón-Rovira J 2022. Taxonomical review of Prosymna angolensis Boulenger, 1915 (Elapoidea, Prosymnidae) with the description of two new species. ZooKeys 1121: 97-143 - get paper here
  • CONRADIE, WERNER; NINDA L. BAPTISTA, LUKE VERBURGT, CHAD KEATES, JAMES HARVEY, TIMOTEO JULIO & GOTZ NEEF. 2021. Contributions to the herpetofauna of the Angolan Okavango-Cuando-Zambezi river drainages. Part 1: Serpentes (snakes). Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 15(2): 244–278. - get paper here
  • Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248
  • 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
  • Loveridge,A. 1958. Revision of five african snake genera. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 119: 1-198 (141) - get paper here
  • Marais, J. 2004. A Complete Guide to the Snakes of Southern Africa, 2nd ed. Struik Publishers, 312 pp.
  • 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)
  • Pietersen, Darren, Verburgt, Luke & Davies, John 2021. Snakes and other reptiles of Zambia and Malawi. Struik Nature / Penguin Random House South Africa, 376 pp., ISBN 9781775847373
  • 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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