Dasypeltis parascabra TRAPE, MEDIANNIKOV & TRAPE, 2012

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Dasypeltis parascabra TRAPE, MEDIANNIKOV & TRAPE 2012 Dasypeltis parascabra — WALLACH et al. 2014: 211 Dasypeltis parascabra — SENTER & CHIPPAUX 2022
Distribution	Guinea (Conakry), Ivory Coast, Liberia, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria Type locality: Dalakan, Guinea (9°58’N, 9°32’W)
Reproduction	oviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022)
Types	Holotype: MNHN-RA 2010.0438 (formerly IRD 1555-G), collected between June and October 2005, by a villager who gave it to JF Trape; paratypes: IRSNB and MNHN-RA 2010.0439 (3 paratype specimens at MNHN-RA according to original description).
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: The genetic results and the following characters: nasal entire, dark rhombic pattern with the pigment uniformly distributed on scales and the lateral bars alternating with the dorsal saddles (‘‘not-linked scabra’’ pattern of Gans [1]). Head with two transversal black bars between the nasals and the eyes, and two or three V shaped black bars on the back of the head and the nape.
Comment	Distribution: see map in GÖTHEL 2015: 19. Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).
Etymology	The name of the new species refers to its close resemblance to D. scabra.
References	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 Göthel, Helmut 2015. Die Eierschlangenarten Afrikas. Draco 16 (61): 78-92 - get paper here Göthel, Helmut 2015. Die Pazifisten unter den Schlangen – Afrikanische Eierschlangen der Gattung Dasypeltis. Draco 16 (61): 6-21 - get paper here Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane 2018. Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71 - get paper here Senter, P. J., & Chippaux, J. P. 2022. Biogeography of snakes in Liberia: Review and synthesis of current knowledge. Ghana Journal of Science, 63(1), 29-62 - get paper here TRAPE, JEAN-FRANÇOIS & CELLOU BALDÉ 2014. A checklist of the snake fauna of Guinea, with taxonomic changes in the genera Philothamnus and Dipsadoboa (Colubridae) and a comparison with the snake fauna of some other West African countries. Zootaxa 3900 (3): 301–338 - get paper here TRAPE, Jean-François; Oleg MEDIANNIKOV, Allan CHIRIO & Laurent CHIRIO 2021. Une nouvelle espèce de serpent mangeur d’œufs du genre Dasypeltis Wagler (Squamata : Colubridae : Colubrinae) en Afrique centrale. Bull. Soc. Herp. France 177: 65-80 Trape, S.; Mediannikov, O.; Trape, J.F. 2012. When colour patterns reflect phylogeography: New species of Dasypeltis (Serpentes: Colubridae: Boigini) from West Africa. Comptes Rendus Biologies 335 (7): 488–501 - 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. Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/312409957650276/ Google images

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