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Prosymna sundevalli (SMITH, 1849)

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Higher TaxaProsymnidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: lineata: Lineolate Shovel-snout
sundevalli: Sundevall's Shovel-snout, South African Shovel-snout
G: Sundevall-Schaufelnasennatter 
SynonymTemnorhynchus Sundervalli SMITH 1849
Rhinostoma cupreum GÜNTHER 1858: 9
Temnorhynchus sundevallii — BOULENGER 1887: 175
Prosymna sundevalli — BOULENGER 1894: 247
Prosymna sundevalli — BOULENGER 1894: 247
Prosymna sundevalli sundevalli — LOVERIDGE 1958: 131
Prosymna sundevalli sundevalli — BROADLEY 1959
Prosymna sundevalli sundevalli — AUERBACH 1987: 176
Prosymna sundevalli — BRANCH 1993
Prosymna sundevallii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 582
Prosymna sundevalli — STANDER 2023: 288 
DistributionBotswana, Zimbabwe,
Republic of South Africa (Transvaal, OFS, Natal, Cape, Zululand), Namibia,
Lesotho, Mozambique

Type locality: “Matlale (S. Ostafrika)” [N Transvaal] [PETERS 1871]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMB 7257 [Temnorhynchus lineatus PETERS 1871] 
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CommentNomenclature: Temnorhynchus is pre-occupied by a beetle genus.

Synonymy: partly after LOVERIDGE 1958.

Subspecies: Prosymna sundevalli lineata (PETERS 181) is now considered as a valid species.

Distribution not correced for removal of lineata.

Diet: reptile eggs 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Carl Jakob Sundevall (sometimes Sundewall) (1801-1875), a zoologist, ornithologist, and arachnologist. His doctorate in zoology was from Lunds Universitet (1823). 
References
  • Auerbach, R.D. 1987. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Botswana. Mokwepa Consultants, Botswana, 295 pp.
  • Bates, M.F.; Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M.; Burger, M., Marais, J.; Alexander, G.J. & de Villliers, M.S. (eds.) 2014. Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 512 pp.
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1887. Synopsis of the snakes of South Africa. The Zoologist, London, (3) 11: 171-182
  • Boycott, R.C. 1992. An Annotated Checklist of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Swaziland. The Conservation Trust of Swaziland - get paper here
  • Branch, William R. 1993. A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 144 S.
  • Broadley, D. & Blaylock 2013. The Snakes of Zimbabwe and Botswana. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 387 pp. [book review in Sauria 35 (2): 59 and Copeia 2014: 388] - get paper here
  • Broadley, D.G. 1959. The herpetology of Southern Rhodesia. Part I--the snakes. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 120 (1): 1-100 [reprint 1972] - get paper here
  • Broadley, D.G. 1962. On some reptile collections from the North-Western and North-Eastern Districts of Southern Rhodesia 1958-1961, with descriptions of four new lizards. Occ. Pap. Nat. Mus. South. Rhodesia 26 (B): 787-843
  • Broadley, D.G. 1965. A revision of the Prosymna sundevalli group (Serpentes: Colubridae). Arnoldia 2 (5): 1-6
  • Broadley, D.G. 1979. Predation on Reptile Eggs by African Snakes of the Genus Prosymna. Herpetologica 35 (4): 338-341 - get paper here
  • Broadley, Donald G. 1999. Geographic distribution: Prosymna lineata (Peters, 1871); Lined Shovel-snout. African Herp News (30): 36-37 - get paper here
  • CONRADIE, W., DOUCETTE-RIISE, S., VANHOOYDONCK, B., ENGELBRECHT, H., MEASEY, G.J., & TOLLEY, K. 2011. Herpetological survey of Rooipoort Nature Reserve, Northern Cape, South Africa. African Herp News (53): 35-41 - get paper here
  • Conradie, Werner; Brian Reeves , Neil Brown, & Jan A. Venter 2016. Herpetofauna of the Oviston, Commando Drift and Tsolwana nature reserves in the arid interior of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Indago 32: 81-98 - get paper here
  • Gough, L.H. 1908. Note on a specimen of Prosymna sundevalli (Smith). Annals Transvaal Mus. 1: 64 - get paper here
  • Haagner, G. V. 1997. Geographic distribution. Prosymna sundevallii lineata. African Herp News (26): 35 - get paper here
  • Herrmann, H.-W.; W.R. Branch 2013. Fifty years of herpetological research in the Namib Desert and Namibia with an updated and annotated species checklist. Journal of Arid Environments 93: 94–115 - get paper here
  • Kruschenski, V. & C. Kässer 2014. Südafrika. Zwischen Reptilien und den Big Five. Reptilia (Münster) 19 (106): 82-93
  • Lönnberg, E. 1910. Two new snakes from Lower Congo. Arkiv för Zoologi 7 (8): 1-8 - get paper here
  • Loveridge,A. 1958. Revision of five african snake genera. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 119: 1-198 (141) - get paper here
  • O’Shea, M. 2018. The Book of Snakes. Ivy Press / Quarto Publishing, London, - get paper here
  • Peters, W. 1871. Uber neue Reptilien aus Ostafrika und Sarawak (Borneo), vorzüglich aus der Sammlung des Hrn. Marquis J. Doria zu Genua. Mber. k. preuss. Akad. Wiss., Berlin [1871]: 566-581 - get paper here
  • Smith, A. 1849. Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa. 3 (Reptiles). Smith, Elder, and Co., London [facsimile published by Winchester Press, Johannesburg, 1977] - get paper here
  • Stander, R.I. 2023. The Reptiles of the Limpopo Province and Kruger National Park. Herp Nomad, Polokwane, South Africa, 367 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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