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Philothamnus pobeguini (CHABANAUD, 1916)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymChlorophis heterodermus Pobeguini CHABANAUD 1916: 371
Chlorophis heterodermus pobeguini — MONARD 1940: 174
Philothamnus heterodermus heterodermus LOVERIDGE 1958 (non HALLOWELL 1857) (in part)
Philothamnus pobeguini — WALLACH et al. 2014: 558
Philothamnus pobeguini — TRAPE & BALDÉ 2014 
DistributionGuinea (Conakry)

Type locality: “Guinée française” [= Guinea].  
Reproductionoviparous (not imputed, fide Zimin et al. 2022) 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 1916.0206, female 
Diagnosis 
CommentIllustration: A colour photograph of a specimen of P. pobeguini from near Kofing River in Upper Niger National Park appears in Greenbaum & Carr (2005) as P. heterodermus.

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
EtymologyApparently named after the collector of the type who is only mentioned by one word after the type as “[Pobéguin]”. Charles Henri Oliver Pobéguin (1856-1951) was a French colonial administrator and naturalist in Central and West Africa. 
References
  • Chabanaud, P. 1916. Enumération des Ophidiens non encore étudiés de l'Afrique occidentale, appartenant aux Collections du Muséum avec le description des espèces et des variétés nouvelles. Bull. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. Paris 22: 362-382 - get paper here
  • Greenbaum, E., Carr, J.L. 2005. The herpetofauna of the Upper Niger National Park, Guinea, West Africa. Scientific Papers of the Natural History Museum of the University of Kansas, 37, 1–21 - get paper here
  • Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane 2018. Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71 - get paper here
  • Loveridge,A. 1958. Revision of five african snake genera. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 119: 1-198 (141) - get paper here
  • Monard, ALBERT 1940. Résultats de la mission du Dr. Monard en Guinée Portugaise 1937 – 1938. Arq. Mus. Bocage, Lisbon 11: 147-182
  • TRAPE, JEAN-FRANÇOIS & CELLOU BALDÉ 2014. A checklist of the snake fauna of Guinea, with taxonomic changes in the genera Philothamnus and Dipsadoboa (Colubridae) and a comparison with the snake fauna of some other West African countries. Zootaxa 3900 (3): 301–338 - get paper here
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Zimin, A., Zimin, S. V., Shine, R., Avila, L., Bauer, A., Böhm, M., Brown, R., Barki, G., de Oliveira Caetano, G. H., Castro Herrera, F., Chapple, D. G., Chirio, L., Colli, G. R., Doan, T. M., Glaw, F., Grismer, L. L., Itescu, Y., Kraus, F., LeBreton 2022. A global analysis of viviparity in squamates highlights its prevalence in cold climates. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–16 - get paper here
 
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