Chamaelycus christyi BOULENGER, 1919

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Higher Taxa	Lamprophiidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Christy's Banded Snake
Synonym	Chamaelycus christyi BOULENGER 1919 Chamaelycus christyi — DE WITTE 1963 Chamaelycus christyi — BROADLEY 1998 Chamaelycus christyi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 157
Distribution	E Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Congo (Brazzaville) Type locality: "Madié (district de l'Ituri), Congo Belge” [=Medje]
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: RMCA (= MRAC), a 370 mm male (C. Christy, 1912-1914).
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Comment	Type species: Chamaelycus christyi BOULENGER 1919 is the type species of the genus Chamaelycus BOULENGER 1919. Phylogenetics: There seems to be no DNA data for this genus. Pyron et al. 2013 assigned Chamaelycus to Lamprophiidae inc. sedis while Marques et al. 2018 assigned it to Colubridae. Key (to the 4 species of Chamaelycus): De Witte 1963: 635. Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species.
Etymology	Named after the “Ministere des Colonies”, Dr. C. Christy, who collected the types during his expedition in the Districts of Stanleyville, Upper Uele, and Ituri in 1912-1914. The genus was named after Greek chamai (χαμαί), on the ground + Greek lykos (λύκος), wolf. [“…Voisin de Zycophidium D. et B. …”].
References	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. 1919. Batraciens et reptiles cecueillis par le Dr. C. Christy dans les districts de Stanleyville, Haut-Uelé et Ituri en 1912-1914. Rev. zool. afr., Bruxelles, 7 (1): 1-29 Broadley, D.G. 1998. The reptilian fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa). In: Schmidt, K.P. and Noble, G.K., Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo... [reprint of the 1919 and 1923 papers]. SSAR Facsimile reprints in Herpetology, 780 pp. Chifundera, K. 1990. Snakes of Zaire and their bites. Afr. Stud. Monogr. (Kyoto) 10(3): 137-157. Chippaux, Jean-Philippe & Kate Jackson 2019. Snakes of Central and Western Africa. Johns Hopkins University Press, 448 pp. [detaileld review in HR 51 (1): 161] - get paper here Trape, J.-F. 2023. Guide des serpents d’Afrique occidentale, centrale et d’Afrique du Nord. IRD Éditions, Marseille, 896 pp. Trape, J.F. & R. ROUX-ESTÈVE 1990. Note sur une collection de serpents du Congo avec description d'une espèce nouvelle. Rev. Zool. Afr. (J. Afr. Zool.) 104: 375-383 Trape, J.F. & R. ROUX-ESTÈVE 1995. Les serpents du Congo: liste commentée et clé de détermination. Journal of African Zoology 109 (1): 31-50 Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - 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 1963. The colubrid snake genera Chamaelycus Boulenger and Oophilositum Parker. Copeia 1963 (4): 634-636 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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