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Meizodon krameri SCHÄTTI, 1985

IUCN Red List - Meizodon krameri - Data Deficient, DD
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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Tana Delta smooth snake 
SynonymMeizodon krameri SCHÄTTI 1985: 155
Meizodon krameri — SPAWLS et al. 2002: 341
Meizodon krameri — WALLACH et al. 2014: 435
Meizodon krameri — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 480 
DistributionKenya

Type locality: Kau, Tana River, Kenya, -2.488889° 40.451944° (WGS84)  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ R-40323 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Differs from Meizodon regularis in fewer ventrals (166-176, instead of 175-203) and light colouration of the venter, from M. coronatus and M. regularis in 26 or more maxillary teeth (instead of 19-23). (Schätti 1985)


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CommentKnown from only 2 specimens collected in 1934 (Spawls et al. 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Eugen Kramer (1921-2004), Swiss mathematician and herpetologist at Naturhistorisches Museum Basel. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Blackburn, D.G. 1993. STANDARDIZED CRITERIA FOR THE RECOGNITION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN SQUAMATE REPTILES. Herpetologica 49 (1): 118-132 - get paper here
  • Schätti B 1985. Systematics of east African species of Meizodon Fischer, 1856 (Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae). Monitore Zoologico Italiano suppl. 20: 149-175 - 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
  • Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
 
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