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Chamaelycus parkeri (ANGEL, 1934)

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Higher TaxaLamprophiidae, Elapoidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Parker's Banded Snake 
SynonymOophilositum parkeri ANGEL 1934: 175
Oophilositum parkeri — LAURENT 1956: 126
Oophilositum parkeri — DE WITTE 1962: 72
Chamaelycus parkeri — DE WITTE 1963
Chamaelycus parkeri — BROADLEY 1998
Chamaelycus parkeri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 157
Chamaelycus parkeri — PAUWELS & COLYN 2023 
DistributionC/E Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Congo (Brazzaville), Angola

Type locality: "Kabulire (dans les forêts situées à l'Ouest du lac Kivu, alt. 1.040 m.)," [Zaire].  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 1934.0011, male (G. Babault) 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us if you need any of this material. 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Hampton Wildman Parker (1897-1968), British zoologist. 
References
  • Angel, F. 1934. Remarques sur le genre Oophilositum Parker (Colubridé aglyphe) et description d'une espèce nouvelle. Bull. Soc. Zool. France 59: 417-419
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Broadley, D.G. 1998. The reptilian fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa). In: Schmidt, K.P. and Noble, G.K., Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo... [reprint of the 1919 and 1923 papers]. SSAR Facsimile reprints in Herpetology, 780 pp.
  • 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
  • Laurent, R.F. 1956. Contribution à l'herpetologie de la région des Grandes Lacs de l'Afrique centrale. Ann. Mus. Roy. Congo Belge (Sci. Zool.), 48: 1-390
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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 1990. Note sur une collection de serpents du Congo avec description d'une espèce nouvelle. Rev. Zool. Afr. (J. Afr. Zool.) 104: 375-383
  • 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.
  • Witte, G. F. de 1962. Genera des serpents du Congo et du Ruanda-Urundi. Mus. Roy. de l'Afr. Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium, Ann. (Ser 8o, Sci. Zool.) no. 104 203 pp.
 
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