Boaedon mentalis (GÜNTHER, 1888)

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Higher Taxa	Lamprophiidae (Boaedontini), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Brown House Snake, African House Snake G: (Afrikanische) Hausschlange
Synonym	Boodon mentalis GÜNTHER 1888: 331 Boodon mentalis — BOULENGER 1893: 335 Boaedon fuliginosus mentalis — LOVERIDGE 1957: 251 Boaedon fuliginosus mentalis — FITZSIMONS 1966 Lamprophis fuliginosus bedriagae — CHIPPAUX 1999: 55 Lamprophis fuliginosus mentalis — CHIPPAUX 1999: 55 Lamprophis ‘mentalis’ — VIDAL et al. 2008 Boaedeon mentalis — HÖROLD 2020: 8 (in error) Boaedon mentalis — HÖROLD 2020: 14 Boaedon mentalis — HALLERMANN et al. 2020
Distribution	Angola (Namibe Province), N Namibia, Republic of South Africa (Northern Cape Province) Type locality: “Damara Land” (in error fide Hallermann et al. 2020)
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.21.92
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Comment	See also B. fuliginosus. Synonymy: Wallach et al. (2014) considered B. mentalis as a synonym of B. capensis. Distribution: for localities in Angola see map in Hallermann et al. 2020: 10 (Fig. 2).
Etymology	Named after the arrangement and shape of its mental scales, after Latin mentum = chin.
References	Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here Chippaux,J.P. 1999. Les serpents d’Afrique occidentale et centrale. Paris (IRD editions), 278 pp. [critical book review in Herp. Bull. 73: 30] - get paper here Fitzsimons, V. 1966. A check-list, with syntopic keys, to the snakes of southern Africa. Annals Transvaal Museum 25 (3): 35-79 - get paper here Günther,A. 1888. Contribution to the knowledge of snakes of tropical Africa. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 1: 322-335 - get paper here Hallermann, Jakob; Luis MP Ceríaco, Andreas Schmitz, Raffael Ernst , Werner Conradie, Luke Verburgt, Mariana P Marques & Aaron M Bauer 2020. A review of the Angolan House snakes, genus Boaedon Duméril, Bibron and Duméril (1854) (Serpentes: Lamprophiidae), with description of three new species in the Boaedon fuliginosus (Boie, 1827) species complex,. African Journal of Herpetology - get paper here Hörold, Ralf 2020. Haltung und Nachzucht von Lepidodactylus lugubris (DUMERIL & BIBRON, 1836) als Aufzuchtfutter für Echsen fressende Schlangen. Ophidia 14 (1): 2-14 Loveridge, A. 1957. Check list of the reptiles and amphibians of east Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 117 (2): 153-362 - get paper here Tolley, K.A., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D.W., Weeber, J., Burger, M. & Alexander, G.J. (eds) 2023. Conservation status of the reptiles of South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho. Suricata 10. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria VIDAL, NICOLAS;WILLIAM R. BRANCH, OLIVIER S.G. PAUWELS,, S. BLAIR HEDGES, DONALD G. BROADLEY, MICHAEL WINK, CORINNE CRUAUD, ULRICH JOGER & ZOLTÁN TAMÁS NAGY 2008. Dissecting the major African snake radiation: a molecular phylogeny of the Lamprophiidae Fitzinger (Serpentes, Caenophidia). Zootaxa 1945: 51–66 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information https://accesspd.co.za/species/bug-eyed-house-snake Google images

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