Aparallactus turneri LOVERIDGE, 1935
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Higher Taxa | Atractaspididae (Aparallactinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Common Names | E: Malindi Centipede-eater |
Synonym | Aparallactus turneri LOVERIDGE 1935: 9 Aparallactus turneri — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1947: 121 Aparallactus turneri — WELCH 1994: 17 Aparallactus turneri — SPAWLS et al. 2002: 424 Aparallactus turneri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 48 Aparallactus turneri — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 456 |
Distribution | coastal Kenya
Type locality: Sokoki Forest, near Malindi, Coast Province, Kenya Colony
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Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Holotype: MCZ 30117 (in catalogue as 39952) |
Diagnosis | |
Comment | Venomous! |
References |
- Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
- Loveridge, A. 1935. Scientific results of an expedition to rain forest regions in Eastern Africa. I. New reptiles and amphibians from East Africa. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 79: 1- 19. - 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
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