| Higher Taxa | Lamprophiidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Flat-snouted Wolf Snake |
| Synonym | Lycophidion depressirostre LAURENT 1968: 472
Lycophidion jacksoni BOULENGER 1893 (part.)
Lycophidion capense — LOVERIDGE 1929: 20 (not A. SMITH) (part.)
Lycophidion capense uzungwensis — BOGERT 1940 (not LOVERIDGE)
Lycophidion depressirostre — BROADLEY & HUGHES 1993
Lycophidion depressirostre — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 25
Lycophidion depressirostre — CHIRIO & INEICH 2006
Lycophidion depressirostre — WALLACH et al. 2014: 409
Lycophidion depressirostre — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 398
Lycophidion depressirostre — TRAPE 2021 |
| Distribution | S Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), Republic of South Sudan (RSS), Central African Republic, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, S Ethiopia
Type locality: Torit, Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), Republic of South Sudan (RSS).
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: MCZ 53348 |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: Nostril pierced at the posterior edge of the nasal, bordered by a postnasal that is in contact with the first supralabial. Dorsal scales with single apical pits in 17- 17-15 rows, the reduction taking place well before the vent; ventrals 153-165 in males, 162-173 in females; subcaudals 31-40 in males, 22-32 in females (Broadley 1996: 20).
Coloration: Dark brown to black, a fragmented broken white band round snout, each dorsal scale stippled with white at the apex, ventrum uniformly dark (Broadley 1996: 20).
Skull: very elongate, strong parietal crests are convergent posteriorly (Broadley 1996: 20).
Size. Largest male (ZMB 17224 - Dar es Salaam) 283 + 49 = 332 mm; largest female (NMW 14469 - Kingani River) 410 + 38 = 448 mm. Tanzanian snakes seem to be smaller than those from the Sudan (Broadley & Hughes, 1993, Broadley 1996: 20). |
| Comment | Distribution: Map: Laurent 1968: 482, Broadley 1996 |
| References |
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- Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here
- Broadley, D. G. & HOWELL, K. M. 1991. A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70
- Broadley, D.G. 1996. A revision of the genus Lycophidion Fitzinger (Serpentes: Colubridae) in Africa south of the equator. Syntarsus 3: 1-33. - get paper here
- Broadley, D.G. & Hughes,B. 1993. A review of the genus Lycophidion (Serpentes: Colubridae) in northeastern Africa. The Herpetological Journal 3 (1): 8-18 - 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, Laurent and Ivan Ineich 2006. Biogeography of the reptiles of the Central African Republic. African Journal of Herpetology 55(1):23-59. - get paper here
- Lanza, B. 1990. Amphibians and reptiles of the Somali Democratic Republic: check list and biogeography. Biogeographia, 14: 407-465 [1988] - get paper here
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- Laurent, R.F. 1968. A re-examination of the snake genus Lycophidion Duméril & Bibron. Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harvard 136 (12): 461-482 - get paper here
- Loveridge, Arthur 1929. East African reptiles and amphibians in the United States National Museum. Bull. US Natl. Mus. (151): 1-135 - get paper here
- Malonza, Patrick K.; David M. Mulwa, Joash O. Nyamache, Georgina Jones 2017. Biogeography of the Shimba Hills ecosystem herpetofauna in Kenya. Zoological Research 38(5): 1-11 - get paper here
- Spawls, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. 2002. A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 pp. [reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147] - get paper here
- Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon 2018. Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 pp. - get paper here
- Stephen Spawls; Tomáš Mazuch& Abubakr Mohammad 2023. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 pp. - get paper here
- Trape, J.-F. 2021. Trois serpents nouveaux du genre Lycophidion Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata : Lamprophiidae) en Afrique centrale. Bull. Soc. Herp. France 178: 24-37
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