Aparallactus niger BOULENGER, 1897

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Higher Taxa	Atractaspididae (Aparallactinae), Elapoidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Black Centipede-eater
Synonym	Aparallactus niger BOULENGER 1897: 154 Rouleophis chevalieri — CHABANAUD 1917: 12 Aparallactus niger — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1947: 106 Aparallactus niger — WELCH 1994: 17 Aparallactus niger — BÖHME et al. 2011: 60 Aparallactus niger — WALLACH et al. 2014: 48 Aparallactus niger — SENTER & CHIPPAUX 2022 Elapops niger — WALLACH 2025
Distribution	Guinea (Conakry), Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast Type locality: Sierra Leone
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Type: BMNH 1946.1.6.89 (and possibly additional specimens).
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Comment	Venomous!
Etymology	Named after Latin niger, nigra, nigrum = black.
References	Böhme, Wolfgang, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Christian Brede & Philipp Wagner 2011. The reptiles (Testudines, Squamata, Crocodylia) of the forested southeast of the Republic Guinea (Guinée forestière), with a country-wide checklist. Bonn zoological Bulletin 60 (1): 35-61 - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1897. Description of a new snake from Sierra Leone. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 19: 154 - get paper here Chabanaud,P. 1917. Note complémentaire sur les Ophidiens de l'Afrique occidentale, avec la description d'une espèce nouvelle. Bull. Mus. nation. Hist. nat., Paris, 23: 7-14 [9] - get paper here 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 Menzies, J.I. 1966. The snakes of Sierra Leone. Copeia 1966 (2): 169-179. - get paper here PAUWELS, OLIVIER; LAURENT CHIRIO & WOUTER DEKONINCK. 2022. Diet records for snakes from Guinea, West Africa. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 57(6): 117–123. - get paper here Senter, P. J., & Chippaux, J. P. 2022. Biogeography of snakes in Liberia: Review and synthesis of current knowledge. Ghana Journal of Science, 63(1), 29-62 - get paper here Trape, J.-F. 2023. Guide des serpents d’Afrique occidentale, centrale et d’Afrique du Nord. IRD Éditions, Marseille, 896 pp. TRAPE, JEAN-FRANÇOIS & CELLOU BALDÉ 2014. A checklist of the snake fauna of Guinea, with taxonomic changes in the genera Philothamnus and Dipsadoboa (Colubridae) and a comparison with the snake fauna of some other West African countries. Zootaxa 3900 (3): 301–338 - 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. Wallach,V. 1994. Aparallactus lineatus (Peters) and Aparallactus niger BOULENGER: two valid species from West Africa. Journal of Herpetology 28 (1): 95-99 - get paper here 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 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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