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Boaedon mentalis (GÜNTHER, 1888)

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Higher TaxaLamprophiidae (Boaedontini), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Brown House Snake, African House Snake
G: (Afrikanische) Hausschlange 
SynonymBoodon 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 
DistributionAngola (Namibe Province), N Namibia, Republic of South Africa (Northern Cape Province)

Type locality: “Damara Land” (in error fide Hallermann et al. 2020)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1946.1.21.92 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (3674 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSee 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). 
EtymologyNamed 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
  • 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
 
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