| Higher Taxa | Lamprophiidae (Boaedontini), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Gasca’s Ethiopian Snake |
| Synonym | Pseudoboodon gascae PERACCA 1897: 2
Pseudoboaedon gascae — CALABRESI 1925: 104
Pseudoboodon gascae — ELTER 1981
Pseudoboodon gascae — RASMUSSEN & LARGEN 1992: 73
Pseudoboodon gascae — LARGEN & SPAWLS 2010: 474
Pseudoboodon gascae — WALLACH et al. 2014: 600
Pseudoboodon gascae — TIUTENKO et al. 2022 |
| Distribution | Ethiopia, Eritrea
Type locality: “Maldi (Eritrea)” [= Maldi, S Anseba Prov., N Eritrea, 15°38’N, 38°48’E, elevation 2450 m] (lectotype locality)
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Syntypes: MRSN (= MSNTO = MZUT) R1658, MSNG 30986 |
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| Comment | Synonymy: has been considered as a synonym of P. lemniscatus (e.g. Capocaccia 1961).
Type species: Pseudoboodon gascae PERACCA 1897: 273 is the type species of the genus Pseudoboodon PERACCA 1897.
Bogert (1940) united Pseudoboodon with Ablabophis, Boaedon, Bothrolycus, Bothrophthalmus, Glypholycus, and Lamprophis in his Group I of African colubrids. Ablabophis and Glypholycus are now considered to be synonyms of Lycodonomorphus. All are confined to the continent of Africa, apart from Lamprophis geometricus in the Seychelles. |
| Etymology | Named after Captain A. Gasca, an Italian officer who collected reptiles in Erittea.
The genus was named after its similarity to the genus Boodon (= Boaedon), from Greek pseudo (ψευδο) = false, untrue, mistaken. |
| References |
- Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
- Calabresi, Enrica 1925. Anfibi e rettili raccolti dal Signor Ugo Ignesti nell'Abissinia settentrionale. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali, e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milano 64: 100-109 - get paper here
- Capocaccia, L. 1961. Catalogo dei tipi di Rettili del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova [MSNG]. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Giacomo Doria 72: 86-111 - get paper here
- Largen, M.J.; Spawls, S. 2010. Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 694 pp.
- Largen,M.J. 1997. An annotated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Eritrea, with keys for their identification. Tropical Zoology 10: 63-115 - get paper here
- Largen,M.J. & Rasmussen,J.B. 1993. Catalogue of the snakes of Ethiopia (Reptilia Serpentes), including identification keys. Tropical Zoology 6: 313-434 - get paper here
- Peracca, M.G. 1897. Intorno ad alcuni Ofidii raccolti a Maldi (Eritrea) dal Capitano A. Gasca. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia e di Anatomia Comparata della R. Università di Torino 12 (273): 1-3 - get paper here
- Rasmussen, J.B. & LARGEN,M.J. 1992. A review of Pseudoboodon PERACCA with the description of a new species from Southwest Ethiopia (Serpentes, Dipsadidae, Lycodontinae, Boadontini). Steenstrupia 18 (3): 65-80
- Spawls, Stephen. 2004. A New Species of Pseudoboodon (Reptilia: Serpentes) from the Central Highlands of Ethiopia; with notes on some other members of the genus. African Journal of Herpetology 53 (1): 13-19 - get paper here
- Spawls, Stephen; Tomáš Mazuch & Abubakr Mohammad 2023. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 pp. - get paper here
- Tiutenko, A., Koch, C., Pabijan, M., & Zinenko, O. 2022. Generic affinities of African house snakes revised: a new genus for Boodon erlangeri (Serpentes: Elapoidea: Lamprophiidae: Lamprophiinae). SALAMANDRA, 58(4), 235-262 - get paper here
- Tiutenko, Arthur 2018. A new record of Pseudoboodon gascae Peracca, 1897 (Squamata: Serpentes: Lamprophiidae) from the southern edge of the Ethiopian Highlands. Herpetology Notes 11: 201-203 - 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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