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Micrelaps vaillanti (MOCQUARD, 1888)

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Higher TaxaMicrelapidae, Elapoidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Black-headed Micrelaps, Somali Two-headed Snake 
SynonymElaposchema vaillanti MOCQUARD 1888: 123
Calamelaps vaillanti — BOETTGER 1893: 117
Micrelaps vaillanti — BOULENGER 1896: 249
Micrelaps boettgeri BOULENGER 1896: 13
Rhinocalamus meleagris STERNFELD 1908: 244
Micrelaps nigriceps STERNFELD 1910
Rhinocalamus meleagris — ANGEL 1925
Micrelaps boettgeri — SCORTECCI 1929: 278
Micrelaps vaillanti — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1947
Micrelaps boettgeri — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1947
Micrelaps boettgeri — LOVERIDGE 1955
Micrelaps boettgeri — LOVERIDGE 1955
Micrelaps boettgeri — LANZA 1983
Micrelaps boettgeri — LANZA 1983
Micrelaps boettgeri — LARGEN & RASMUSSEN 1993
Micrelaps boettgeri — SPAWLS et al. 2002: 436
Micrelaps boettgeri — RASMUSSEN 2002
Micrelaps vaillanti — RASMUSSEN 2002
Micrelaps vaillanti — LARGEN & SPAWLS 2010: 586
Micrelaps vaillanti — WALLACH et al. 2014: 438
Micrelaps vaillanti — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 459 
DistributionSomalia, E Ethiopia, Kenya, N Tanzania, Chad

Type locality: S Somalia

boettgeri: E Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda; Type locality: “Dolo”  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 1884.0696
Holotype: MSNG 29058, a 235 mm female (E. Ruspoli, 1893) [boettgeri] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Dorsum brown or greyish, each scale usually with a central or apical pale spot, two lower rows of dorsals usually entirely pale; upper surface of head and neck dark brown or black, sometimes separated by a pale collar in juveniles. First pair of infralabials in contact behind mental. Posterior pair of chin-shields usually in contact. Fifth supralabial often in contact with parietal (Rasmussen 2002).


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CommentVenomous!

Synonymy: Micrelaps boettgeri BOULENGER 1896 is synonymous to M. vaillanti according to RASMUSSEN (2002). BOULENGER (1888: 13) noted in the Zoological Record that the genus Elaposchema is synonymous to Calamelaps. 
EtymologyMicrelaps vaillanti was named after Leon Louis Vaillant (1834-1914), a French zoologist, herpetologist, ichthyologist, and malacologist at Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. He was on several French naval expeditions (1880-1883).

M. boettgeri was named after Oskar Boettger (1844-1910), herpetologist at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt am Main.
 
References
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  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Boettger,O. 1893. Übersicht der von Prof. C. Keller anlässlich der Ruspoli'schen Expedition nach den Somaliländern gesammelten Reptilien und Batrachier. Zool. Anz. 16 (416): 113-119 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1896. A list of the reptiles and batrachians collected by the late Prince Eugenio Ruspoli in Somaliland and Gallaland in 1893. Annali Mus. civ. Stor. nat. Genova, Giacomo Doria, (2) 17: 5-14 [11] - get paper here
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