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Lycophidion semicinctum DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL, 1854

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Higher TaxaLamprophiidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymLycophidion semicinctum DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 414
Lycodon Horstokii var. à bandes transversales SCHLEGEL 1837: 112 (fide DUMÉRIL et al. 1854)
Lycophidion semicinctum — PERRET 1961
Lycophidion semicinctum — HOOGMOED 1979
Lycophidion semicinctum — BROADLEY 1992
Lycophidion semicinctum — CHIRIO & INEICH 2006
Lycophidion semicinctum — TRAPE & BALDÉ 2014
Lycophidion semicinctum — WALLACH et al. 2014: 411 
DistributionGuinea-Bissau, Guinea (Conakry), Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Central African Republic, Gambia (HÅKANSSON 1981), Senegal, Burkina Faso, Niger, Sierra Leone

Type locality: "Cap de Bonne-Espérance, Afrique australe," (in error). Corrected to Cote de l'Or [=Ghana] fide Guibé and Roux-Estève, 1972: 394.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: RMNH 307, a 283 mm specimen (Eschrict). 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Only one apical pit. Snout about as long as or longer than parietals. Postnasal in contact with 2nd labial, seldom with Ist as well. Scale rows 17-17-15. Ventrals: 183-193 (♂♂), 196-211 (♀♀). Subcaudals: 17-58 (♂♂), 36-46 (♀♀). (Exceptionally, 177 ventrals and 42 sub- caudals in a male from northem Ghana—a fact which suggests a northern subspecies or a cline.) Color patter with transverse bands or alternating spots, becoming in- distinet in the largest specimens without white stippling.
Maximum size (in mm): 478 (tail 88) in males; 788 (tail 88) in females. (Laurent 1968: 470)


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CommentNot listed in TRAPE & MANÉ 2006 for Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau. 
References
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