Dispholidus punctatus LAURENT, 1955
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Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Synonym | Dispholidus typus punctatus LAURENT 1955: 129 Dispholidus punctatus — EIMERMACHER 2012: 61 Dispholidus typus punctatus — MARQUES et al. 2018 Dispholidus typus punctatus — HUGHES 2021 Dispholidus punctatus — TRAPE & COLLET 2021: 179 Dispholidus typus punctatus — TRAPE 2023: 454 |
Distribution | Angola, Zaire, Zambia, DRC (Congo)
Type locality: “Dundo, Angola”
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Reproduction | egg-laying (oviparous). |
Types | Holotype: RMCA (= MRAC) 17395, Paratypes in ZFMK, IRSNB, CM, and RMNH but not in FMNH (fide A. Resetar, pers. comm., 4 Feb 2019); other types in MD (Museu Dundo) |
Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (348 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
Comment | Venomous!
Diet: feeds mainly on chamaeleons and other tree lizards, nestling birds and eggs;
Distribution: For a map see Eimermacher 2012: 59 (Fig. 2.8).
See also D. typus. |
References |
- Eimermacher, T.G. 2012. Phylogenetic Systematics Of Dispholidine Colubrids (Serpentes: Colubridae). PhD Thesis, UT Arlington, 109 pp. - get paper here
- HUGHES, Barry 2021. Description of a new species of Boomslang (Dispholidus Duvernoy, 1832) from the island of Pemba (Zanzibar Archipelago, Tanzania). Bull. Soc. Herp. France 177: 47-64 - get paper here
- Laurent, R.F. 1955. Diagnoses preliminaires des quelques Serpents venimeux. Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 51: 127-139
- Marques, Mariana P.; Luis M. P. Ceríaco , David C. Blackburn , and Aaron M. Bauer 2018. Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola -- Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840–2017). Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (Ser. 4) 65: 1-501 (Supplement II)
- Pietersen, Darren, Verburgt, Luke & Davies, John 2021. Snakes and other reptiles of Zambia and Malawi. Struik Nature / Penguin Random House South Africa, 376 pp., ISBN 9781775847373
- Trape, J.-F. 2023. Guide des serpents d’Afrique occidentale, centrale et d’Afrique du Nord. IRD Éditions, Marseille, 896 pp.
- TRAPE, Jean-François & Marcel COLLET 2021. Nouvelles données sur les serpents du sud-est du Katanga (République démocratique du Congo). Bull. Soc. Herp. Fr. (2021) 179 | 11-26 - get paper here
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