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Elapsoidea boulengeri BOETTGER, 1895

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Higher TaxaElapidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Boulenger's Garter Snake 
SynonymElapsoidea Boulengeri BOETTGER 1895: 62
Elapechis boulengeri — BOULENGER 1896
Elapechis guentheri — PERACCA 1896 (non E. güntherii BOCAGE 1866)
Elapechis sundevallii — PERACCA 1896 (non Elaps sunderwallii SMITH 1849)
Elapsoidea sundevallii decosteri — LOVERIDGE 1944 (part.) (non E. decosteri BOULENGER 1896)
Elapsoidea semiannulata boulengeri — BROADLEY 1971: 611
Elapsoidea semiannulata boulengeri — BRANCH 1981: 13
Elapsoidea semiannulata boulengeri — AUERBACH 1987: 193
Elapsoidea boulengeri — BRANCH 1988: 105
Elapsoidea semiannulata boulengeri — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 24
Elapsoidea semiannulata boulengeri — BOYCOTT 1992
Elapsoidea semiannulata boulengeri — BROADLEY in GOLAY et al. 1993: 135
Elapsoidea boulengeri — BROADLEY 1998
Elapsoidea boulengeri — MERCURIO 2007
Elapsoidea boulengeri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 265
Elapsoidea boulengeri — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 544
Elapsoidea boulengeri — PIETERSEN et al. 2021
Elapsoidea boulengeri — STANDER 2023: 323 
DistributionTanzania south to Mozambique west to Zambia, Botswana and Republic of South Africa (N Cape Province); BROADLEY (1998): Zambia west of the Zambezi and N Namibia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Eswatini (Swaziland)

Type locality: Boroma, Mozambique.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: SMF 20555 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data to their customers. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions or comparisons (about 1719 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentVenomous!

BROADLEY (1998) elevated E. s. boulengeri to species status based on slightly differrent colour patterns. Synonymy mostly after BROADLEY in GOLAY et al. 1993: 134.

Distribution: Not in Angola fide Marques et al. 2018. See map in Broadley 1971: 603 (Fig. 7). 
EtymologyNamed after George Albert Boulenger (1858-1937), a Belgian-British herpetologist at the British Museum, London, and most productive alpha-taxonomist in herpetology (Uetz 2010, Uetz & Stylianou 2018). 
References
  • Auerbach, R.D. 1987. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Botswana. Mokwepa Consultants, Botswana, 295 pp.
  • Bates, M.F.; Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M.; Burger, M., Marais, J.; Alexander, G.J. & de Villliers, M.S. (eds.) 2014. Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 512 pp.
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Boettger, OSKAR 1895. Zwei neue Reptilien vom Zambesi. Zool. Anz. 18: 62-63. - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3. London (Taylor & Francis), xiv + 727 pp. - get paper here
  • Boycott, R.C. 1992. An Annotated Checklist of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Swaziland. The Conservation Trust of Swaziland - get paper here
  • Branch, W. R. 1981. The venomous snakes of southern Africa 2. Elapidae and Hydrophidae. Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 17 (1): 1-47 - get paper here
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  • Broadley, D. G. & HOWELL, K. M. 1991. A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70
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  • Mercurio, V. 2007. Polemon christyi and Elapsoidea boulengeri: two new sake distribution records for Malawi. Salamandra 43 (4): 253-255 - get paper here
  • O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here
  • 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
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