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Elapsoidea semiannulata BOCAGE, 1882

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Higher TaxaElapidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
SubspeciesElapsoidea semiannulata moebiusi (WERNER 1897)
Elapsoidea semiannulata semiannulata BOCAGE 1882 
Common NamesE: Angolan Garter Snake 
SynonymElapsoidea semiannulata BOCAGE 1882: 303
Elapsoidea güntherii BOCAGE 1873 (not BOCAGE 1866) (fide GOLAY et al.)
Elapsoidea güntherii BOCAGE 1895: 129 (part.)
Elapechis guentheri — BOULENGER 1896 (part.)
Elapechis guentheri — MONARD 1937: 137
Elapsoidea sundevalli semiannulata — LOVERIDGE 1944: 220
Elapsoidea decosteri huilensis LAURENT 1964: 118
Elapsoidea semiannulata semiannulata — BROADLEY 1971: 610
Elapsoidea semiannulata — RÖDEL et al. 1999
Elapsoidea semiannulata — BROADLEY et al. 2003: 101
Elapsoidea semiannulata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 267
Elapsoidea semiannulata semiannulata — MARQUES et al. 2018

Elapsoidea semiannulata moebiusi WERNER 1897
Elapsoidea güntherii BOCAGE 1866 (part.)
Elapechis moebiusi WERNER 1897: 400
Elapsoidea sundevalli guentheri — LOVERIDGE 1944: 222 (part.)
Elapsoidea sundevalli moebiusi — PARKER 1949: 98 (part.)
Elapsoidea sundevalli semiannulata — LAURENT 1952: 200 (not BOCAGE)
Elapsoidea decosteri moebiusi — LAURENT 1956: 277 (part.)
Elapsoidea sundevalli moebiusi — PAPENFUSS 1969: 315
Elapsoidea semiannulata moebiusi — BROADLEY 1971: 609
Elapsoidea semiannulata moebiusi — TRAPE & ROUX-ESTÈVE 1995: 44
Elapsoidea semiannulata moebiusi — TRAPE & MANÉ 2000
Elapsoidea semiannulata moebiusi — TRAPE & MANÉ 2006
Elapsoidea semiannulata moebiusi — PAUWELS & VANDE WEGHE 2008
Elapsoidea semiannulata moebiusi — TRAPE & BALDÉ 2014
Elapsoidea semiannulata moebiusi — MARQUES et al. 2018
Elapsoidea semiannulata moebiusi — HÖROLD 2020 
DistributionAngola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ghana, Ivory Coast (RÖDEL et al. 1999), Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Gambia, Mozambique, N Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea (Conakry), Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, S Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), Republic of South Sudan (RSS), Togo, W/C/S Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Congo (Brazzaville), Zambia, Zimbabwe

moebiusi: N Angola, Zaire, Central African Republic, Chad, west to Senegal and S Mauritania, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Upper Volta (Burkina Faso), Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Gabon, Cameroon, Congo (fide BROADLEY in GOLAY et al. 1993); Type locality: Kete, Ghana.

semiannulata: Angola, SW Zaire, W Zambia, N Namibia; Type locality: Caconda, Angola.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: lost fide BROADLEY in GOLAY et al. 1993: 134
Holotype: ZMB 13802 (Zool. Mus. Berlin) [moebiusi]
Types: MD (Museu Dundo) [huilensis] 
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CommentVenomous!

Synonymy: 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: reports from South Africa probably refer to E. boulengeri, previously a subspecies of Elapsoidea semiannulata. Not in East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi fide S. Spawls, pers. comm., 28 June 2018). See map in Broadley 1971: 603 (Fig. 7) and p. 601 (Fig. 5). Not in Liberia fide Senter & Chippaux 2022. Not in Eswatini (Swaziland) fide Wilkey & Naan 2025. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin for half-ringed from semi- (half) and annulata (ringed). 
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