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Dipsadoboa underwoodi RASMUSSEN, 1993

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymDipsadoboa underwoodi RASMUSSEN 1993: 169
Dipsadoboa underwoodi — PAUWELS et al. 2006
Dipsadoboa underwoodi — BÖHME et al. 2011: 58
Dipsadoboa underwoodi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 231
Dipsadoboa underwoodi — SENTER & CHIPPAUX 2022 
DistributionCameroon, Gabon (Pauwels et al. 2006), Togo, Guinea (Conakry), Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea

Type locality: Bibundi, Cameroon. [Mukunjefarm , Mudame (4°35'N 9°31'E) fide J. Hallermann (pers. comm.)]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZSM 162/1909/1 (given as ZSM 162E/1909), paratypes: ZSM, ZMUC, BMNH, BH, CAS, CMNH, FMNH, MHNG, MNHN, NMW, USNM, ZMB 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A West African (Sierra Leone to Gabon) form of Dipsadoboa which predominantly occurs in lowland rain forest, and which has the following character combination: ventrals 178-202 and 177-199, males and females, respectively; subcaudals single, 71-87 and 72-84, in males and females, respectively; juveniles with a characteristic pattern of up to 62 brown to dark brown cross bands on a pale ground colour from nape to basis of tail; in larger specimens the bands gradually disappear from behind, the specimens eventually becoming uniform warm brown to black-brown; anal glands extend to subcaudals no. 4-6, and 4-7, in males and females, respectively. (Rasmussen 1993)


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CommentHabitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018).

Distribution: For a map with localities in Equatorial Guinea see SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS et al. 2022. 
EtymologyNamed after Garth Leon Underwood (1919-2002), British herpetologist (obituary in Copeia 2003: 222-225). See Historical perspective by Stewart 2003 and obituary by McCarthy 2003. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Böhme, Wolfgang, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Christian Brede & Philipp Wagner 2011. The reptiles (Testudines, Squamata, Crocodylia) of the forested southeast of the Republic Guinea (Guinée forestière), with a country-wide checklist. Bonn zoological Bulletin 60 (1): 35-61 - get paper here
  • BRANCH, WILLIAM R.; JULIAN BAYLISS, GABRIELA B. BITTENCOURT-SILVA, WERNER CONRADIE, HANLIE M. ENGELBRECHT, SIMON P. LOADER, MICHELE MENEGON, CRISTÓVÃO NANVONAMUQUITXO, KRYSTAL A. TOLLEY 2019. A new species of tree snake (Dipsadoboa, Serpentes: Colubridae) from ‘sky island’ forests in northern Mozambique, with notes on other members of the Dipsadoboa werneri group. Zootaxa 4646 (3): 541–563 - get paper here
  • BROADLEY, D.G. & CASSIDY, T. 2011. Dipsadoboa underwoodi Rasmussen 1993. African Herp News (55): 21-22 - get paper here
  • Carlino, P. & Pauwels, O.S.G. 2015. An Updated Reptile List of Ivindo National Park, the Herpetofaunal Hotspot of Gabon. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 50(3): 25-39 - get paper here
  • 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
  • Chirio, L. & Lebreton, M. 2007. Atlas des reptiles du Cameroun. MNHN, IRD, Paris 688 pp.
  • Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248 - 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
  • McCarthy, Colin J. 2003. Obituary: GARTH LEON UNDERWOOD 1919–2002. Copeia 2003 (1): 222–225 - get paper here
  • Pauwels, O. S. G. B. Le Garff, I. Ineich, P. Carlino, I. Melcore, L. Boundenga, C. Vigna, T. Stévart, K. Jeffery, C. Orbell, J.-B. Squarcini, J. P. Vande weghe and L. J. T. White 2016. Miscellanea Herpetologica Gabonica V & VI. Bull. Chicago Herp. Soc. 51: 177 - get paper here
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  • Rasmussen J B 1993. A taxonomic review of the Dipsadoboa unicolor complex, including a phylogenetic analysis of the genus (Serpentes, Dipsadidae, Boiginae). Steenstrupia 19 (4): 129-196
  • SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS, A., CALVO-REVUELTA, M. & DE LA RIVA, I. 2022. Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea. Zootaxa 5202 (1): 1-197 - get paper here
  • Segniagbeto GLazcano. H., Trape J. F., David P., Ohler A., Dubois A. & Glitho I. A. 2011. The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems. Zoosystema 33 (3): 325-360. DOI: 10.5252/z2011n3a4 - 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
  • STEWART, MARGARET M. 2003. Historical perspective: GARTH UNDERWOOD. Copeia 2003 (2): 415–418 - get paper here
  • Tarn, N., Tobi, E. & Dixon-MacCallum, G.P. 2018. Geographic Distribution: Dipsadoboa underwoodi. Herpetological Review 49 (1): 76. - 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, 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 & Mamadou Cellou BALDÉ 2023. Une nouvelle espèce de couleuvre arboricole du genre Dipsadoboa Günther, 1858 (Squamata : Colubridae : Colubrinae) d’Afrique de l’Ouest. Bull. Soc. Herp. Fr. (2023) 183: 1-13 - 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.
 
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