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Amblyodipsas ventrimaculata (ROUX, 1907)

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Higher TaxaAtractaspididae (Aparallactinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Kalahari Purple-glossed Snake 
SynonymRhinocalamus ventrimaculata ROUX 1907: 78
Calamelaps pellegrini ANGEL 1921: 42
Calamelaps ventrimaculatus — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1947
Calamelaps ventrimaculatus websteri FITZSIMONS & BRAIN 1958
Calamelaps ventrimaculatus websteri — BROADLEY 1962
Amblyodipsas ventrimaculata — AUERBACH 1987: 173
Amblyodipsas ventrimaculata — WELCH 1994: 15
Amblyodipsas ventrimaculata — BROADLEY et al. 2003: 87
Amblyodipsas ventrimaculatua — BROADLEY & BLAYLOCK 2013 (in error)
Amblyodipsas ventrimaculata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 27
Amblyodipsas ventrimaculata — CONRADIE et al. 2021
Amblyodipsas ventrimaculata — PIETERSEN et al. 2021 
DistributionN Namibia, Botswana, N Zimbabwe, W Zambia, Republic of South Africa, Angola

Type locality: Barotseland, Zambia.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MHNN Musee de Neuchatel, Switzerland. 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2665 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentVenomous!

Synonymy mostly after BROADLEY 1971. 
EtymologyNamed after the black spots on the ventral side, from Latin venter = belly , stomach, and Latin maculus = spotted. 
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
  • Barts, M. & W. D. Haacke 1997. Zur Reptilienfauna der Tsodilo - Berge und angrenzender Gebiete in NW - Botswana Teil II: Sauria II; Serpents. Sauria 19 (4): 15-21 - get paper here
  • Branch, William R.; Pedro Vaz Pinto, Ninda Baptista, and Werner Conradie 2019. The Reptiles of Angola: History, Diversity, Endemism and Hotspots. Chapter 13 in: B. J. Huntley et al. (eds.), Biodiversity of Angola. Springer Verlag, pp. 283-334 - 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. 1971. A revision of the African snake genera Amblyodipsas and Xenocalamus. Occ. Pap. natl. Mus. Rhod. B4 (33): 629-697
  • Broadley, D.G. 1959. The herpetology of Southern Rhodesia. Part I--the snakes. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 120 (1): 1-100 [reprint 1972] - get paper here
  • Broadley, D.G. 1962. On some reptile collections from the North-Western and North-Eastern Districts of Southern Rhodesia 1958-1961, with descriptions of four new lizards. Occ. Pap. Nat. Mus. South. Rhodesia 26 (B): 787-843
  • Butler, B O; Ceríaco, L M P; Marques, M P; Bandeira, S; Júlio, T; Heinicke, M P & Bauer, A M; 2019. Herpetological survey of Huíla Province, Southwest Angola, including first records of Bicuar National Park. Herpetological Review 50 (2): 225-240 - 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
  • Egan, V.T. 2006. Geographical distribution. Colubridae. Amblyodipsas ventrimaculata (Roux, 1907) Kalahari purple-glossed snake. African Herp News (41): 26 - get paper here
  • 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
  • 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
  • Roux, J. 1907. Sur quelques Reptiles sud-africains. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 15: 75-86. - get paper here
  • Schätti, B. 1985. Catalogue des types et des exemplaires figurés du Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Neuchâtel - II. Ophidiens. Bibliotheques et Muses de la Ville de Neuchatel, 1985: 98-108.
  • VERBURGT, L.; G. K. NICOLAU & M. VILJOEN 2018. The Kalahari Purple-glossed snake (Amblyodipsas ventrimaculata; Roux, 1907). A poorly known and overlooked species in South Africa. African Herp News (68): 20 - 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.
  • 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
 
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