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Aparallactus guentheri BOULENGER, 1895

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Higher TaxaAtractaspididae (Aparallactinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Black Centipede Eater 
SynonymAparallactus guentheri BOULENGER 1895: 172
Aparallactus jacksonii — BOULENGER 1896: 259
Aparallactus uluguruensis BARBOUR & LOVERIDGE 1928
Aparallactus capensis uluguruensis — LOVERIDGE 1944
Aparallactus guentheri — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1947: 115
Aparallactus guentheri — BROADLEY 1959
Aparallactus guentheri — WELCH 1994: 17
Aparallactus guentheri — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 28
Aparallactus guentheri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 46
Aparallactus guentheri — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 452
Aparallactus guentheri — PIETERSEN et al. 2021 
DistributionE Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, N Mozambique, S Tanzania, Zanzibar

Type locality: Lake Nyassa Shire Highlands and Zanzibar.

uluguruensis: border of Kenya and Tanzania; Type locality: Nyange, Uluguru Mountains, Tanganyika Territory [= Tanzania]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesLectotype: BMNH 1946.1.6.88, male (F. Finn)
Holotype: MCZ 21014, 23363 [uluguruensis] 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 1052 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentVenomous!

Synonymy partly after BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991.

Listed under “Colubridae” by BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991.

Distribution: not in Angola fide Branch 2018.

Subspecies: the status of Aparallactus capensis uluguruensis is unclear (D. Meirte, pers. comm., 3 Feb 2014). 
EtymologyNamed after Albert Günther (1830-1914), German-born zoologist at the British Museum. 
References
  • Barbour, T. & LOVERIDGE.A. 1928. A comparative study of the herpetological fauna of the Uluguru and Usambara mountains, Tanzania Territory with descriptions of new species. Mem. Mus. comp. Zool. Cambridge (Massachusetts), 50 (2): 85-265 - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Boulenger,G.A. 1895. Descriptions of two new snakes from Usambara, German East Africa. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 16: 171-173 - get paper here
  • Branch, William R. 1993. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 144 S.
  • 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. & HOWELL, K. M. 1991. A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70
  • 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
  • Loveridge,A. 1944. Further revisions of African snake genera. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 95 (2): 121-247 - get paper here
  • Malonza, Patrick K.; David M. Mulwa, Joash O. Nyamache, Georgina Jones 2017. Biogeography of the Shimba Hills ecosystem herpetofauna in Kenya. Zoological Research 38(5): 1-11 - 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
  • Rasmussen,J.B. 1981. The snakes from the rainforest of the Usambara Mountains, Tanzania: a checklist and key. Salamandra 17 (3-4): 173-188 - get paper here
  • Spawls, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. 2002. A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 pp. [reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147] - get paper here
  • Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon 2018. Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 pp. - 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 - get paper here
 
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