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Philothamnus mayombensis TRAPE, COLLET, HUGHES & MEDIANNIKOV, 2021

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesF: Philothamne du Mayombe
E: Mayombe Bush Snake 
SynonymPhilothamnus mayombensis TRAPE, COLLET, HUGHES & MEDIANNIKOV in TRAPE et al. 2021
Philothamnus heterodermus heterodermus (non Philothamnus heterodermus HALLOWELL) — LOVERIDGE 1951 (pro parte)
Philothamnus heterodermus heterodermus — LOVERIDGE 1958
Philothamnus heterodermus heterodermus — DE WITTE 1962 (part)
Philothamnus heterodermus (non Philothamnus heterodermus HALLOWELL) —HUGHES 1985 (part)
Philothamnus heterodermus — TRAPE 1985
Philothamnus heterodermus — TRAPE & ROUX-ESTÈVE 1995 (part)
Philothamnus heterodermus — CHIPPAUX 2006 (part)
Philothamnus heterodermus — CHIPPAUX & JACKSON 2019 (part) 
DistributionDemocratic Republic of Congo

Type locality: Luki in Mayombe in the Democratic Republic of Congo (05°39'3, 10°03'E, elevation 160 m  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: MNHN 2021.0104 (formerly IRD TR.4696), collected by a villager who gave it to one of the authors (Marcel Collet).
Paratypes: Two specimens from Luki (Democratic Republic of Congo): MNHN 2021.0105 (formerly IRD TR.4697), and MNHN 2021.0106 (formerly IRD 4698) collected by a villager who gave them to one of the authors (Marcel Collet). 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: “A species of the genus Philothamnus characterized by an entire cloacal scale, 15 rows of scales halfway up the body, the ventrals weakly keeled number from 152 to 157 in males and from 155 to 162 in females, the undertail coverts smooth on the number from 88 to 98 in males and from 79 to 90 in females, 9 (4,5,6) supralabial, usually 2 anterior temporals (rarely only one) and two posterior temporals, from 31 to 36 maxillary teeth and an olive-brown dorsal coloration with bluish dots and blackish crossbars in front of body. Philothamnus mayombensis sp. Nov differs from all other species of the genus Philothamnus by the combination of 15 rows of midbody dorsals and a simple anal, this with the exception of (1) P. bellii from West Africa which is characterized by a black dorsal coloring never observed in P.mayombensis sp. nov. and a genetic distance of 4% for the 16S gene, (2) from P. pobeguini from West Africa the West, which has a much lower number ventrals and subcaudals in both sexes and only two supralabials in contact with the eye, (3) of P. rwandae from the Albertine rift which presents a distinctly greater number of ventrals in both sexes, and (4) P. heterodermus from Africa Central and West Africa by a distance genetics of 7% for the 16S gene, as well as by a distinct coloring, more or less evenly green in P. heterodermus and never olive-brown with bluish dots and bars blackish crossbones at the front of the body like in P. mayombensis sp. nov.” (from Trape et al. 2021) 
Comment 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
  • 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
  • Chippaux,J.P. 2006. Les serpents d’Afrique occidentale et centrale. Paris (IRD editions), 311 pp.
  • Hughes, B. 1985. Progress on a taxonomic revision of African green tree snakes (Philothamnus spp.). In: Schuchmann, K.L. (ed.) Proceedings of the International Symposium on African Vertebrates. ZFMK, Bonn, pp. 511-530
  • Loveridge, A. 1951. Synopsis of the African Green Snakes (Philothamnus inc. Chlorophis) with the description of a new form. Bull. Inst. Roy. Sci. Nat. Belgique 27: 1-12
  • Loveridge,A. 1958. Revision of five african snake genera. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 119: 1-198 (141) - get paper here
  • Trape, J. F. 1985. Les serpents de la region de Dimonika (Mayombe, Republique Popilaire du Congo. Revue de zoologie africaine 99 (2): 135-140
  • Trape, J.-F. 2023. Guide des serpents d’Afrique occidentale, centrale et d’Afrique du Nord. IRD Éditions, Marseille, 896 pp.
  • Trape, J.F. & R. ROUX-ESTÈVE 1995. Les serpents du Congo: liste commentée et clé de détermination. Journal of African Zoology 109 (1): 31-50
  • TRAPE, Jean-François; Barry HUGHES, Marcel COLLET & Oleg MEDIANNIKOV 2021. Phylogénie moléculaire des serpents du groupe Philothamnus heterodermus (Hallowell, 1857) (Squamata : Colubridae : Colubrinae) avec la description de deux espèces nouvelles. Bull. Soc. Herp. Fr. 179: 27-42 - get paper here
  • Witte, G. F. de 1962. Genera des serpents du Congo et du Ruanda-Urundi. Mus. Roy. de l'Afr. Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium, Ann. (Ser 8o, Sci. Zool.) no. 104 203 pp.
 
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