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Mehelya laurenti DE WITTE, 1959

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Higher TaxaLamprophiidae, Elapoidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymMehelya laurenti DE WITTE 1959: 348
Mehelya laurenti — BROADLEY 1998
Gonionotophis laurenti — KELLY et al. 2011
Mehelya laurenti — WALLACH et al. 2014: 425
Mehelya laurenti — BROADLEY et al. 2018
Gonionotophis laurenti — CHIPPAUX & JACKSON 2019: 215 
DistributionW?, C Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire)

Type locality: "d'Ikela (Territ. d'Ikela), Congo belge." [Extreme southeastern Equateur Region, 01˚08'S,23˚05'E, or 1°03’S, 23°21’E fide JF Trape, pers. comm., 10 June 2026].  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: RMCA (= MRAC) 21033, a 465 mm male (R.P. Lootens 1957). 
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. We will relaease that material sometime next year. Please contact us if you need any of this data earlier than that. 
CommentSynonymy: Likely a synonym of M. stenophthalmus (from which it differs only by a minor detail in the supralabials 
EtymologyNamed after Raymond Ferdinand Louis-Philippe Laurent (1917-2005), Belgian herpetologist. 
References
  • 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
  • Kelly, Christopher M.R.; William R. Branch, Donald G. Broadley, Nigel P. Barker, Martin H. Villet 2011. Molecular systematics of the African snake family Lamprophiidae Fitzinger, 1843 (Serpentes: Elapoidea), with particular focus on the genera Lamprophis Fitzinger 1843 and Mehelya Csiki 1903. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 58(3): 415-426 - get paper here
  • Trape, J.-F. 2023. Guide des serpents d’Afrique occidentale, centrale et d’Afrique du Nord. IRD Éditions, Marseille, 896 pp.
  • 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 1959. Contribution à la faune herpétologique du Congo Belge. Description de trois serpents nouveaux. Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr. 60 (3-4): 348-351.
 
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