| Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Common Names | E: Spotted Dagger-tooth Tree Snake |
| Synonym | Thrasops batesii BOULENGER 1908: 93
Rhamnophis batesii — SCHMIDT 1923: 83
Thrasops batesi — TRAPE & ROUX-ESTÈVE 1995: 40
Rhamnophis batesii — BROADLEY 1998
Thrasops batesi — LEGRAND 2002
Rhamnophis batesii — CHIRIO & INEICH 2006
Thrasops batesii — CHIRIO & LEBRETON 2007
Rhamnophis batesii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 646
Thrasops batesii — CHIPPAUX & JACKSON 2019: 371
Thrasops batesii — SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS et al. 2022
Thrasops batesii — TRAPE 2023: 712 |
| Distribution | Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, W/C Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Congo (Brazzaville), Central African Republic
Type locality: “Akok, Kribi River district, and Ja River district”, Akok and Efulen, Cameroon.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Syntypes: BMNH 1946.1.4.63-65 |
| Diagnosis | DIAGNOSIS: Dorsal scales in 13 rows at midbody, vertebral row enlarged; ventrals 163-19; cloacal entire; subcaudals 92-119; two labials in contact with lowest postocular.
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| Comment | COLORATION in LIFE. Dorsum pale violet-brown, many scales black at the base and along lower edge, giving a plaited effect to the supracaudals. Chin and throat cream, rest of venter pale green, with black labial sutures and numerous black spots or blotches on the venter.
HABITAT: Rain forest between 400 and 1000 metres, fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018)
Distribution: For a map with localities in Equatorial Guinea see SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS et al. 2022. |
| Etymology | Named after George Latimer Bates (1863-1940), an American ornithologist and botanist who traveled in West Africa (1895-1931). |
| References |
- Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
- Boulenger, GEORGE A. 1908. Description of three new snakes from Africa. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 2: 93-94 - get paper here
- BROADLEY, D. G. & V. WALLACH 2002. Review of the Dispholidini, with the description of a new genus and species from Tanzania (Serpentes, Colubridae). Bull. nat.Hist. Mus. Lond (Zool.), 68(2): 57-74. - get paper here
- Broadley, D.G. 1998. The reptilian fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa). In: Schmidt, K.P. and Noble, G.K., Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo... [reprint of the 1919 and 1923 papers]. SSAR Facsimile reprints in Herpetology, 780 pp.
- Chifundera, K. 1990. Snakes of Zaire and their bites. Afr. Stud. Monogr. (Kyoto) 10(3): 137-157.
- 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
- Chirio, Laurent and Ivan Ineich 2006. Biogeography of the reptiles of the Central African Republic. African Journal of Herpetology 55(1):23-59. - 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
- Legrand, Gonwouo Nono 2002. REPTILES OF MOUNT CAMEROON WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO SPECIES IN INTERCONTINENTAL TRADE. Thesis, University of Yaounde, Cameroon, 73 pp.
- Pauwels, O.S.G. & Vande Weghe, J.P. 2008. Les reptiles du Gabon. Smithsonian Institution, Washington: 272 pp. - get paper here
- SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS, A., CALVO-REVUELTA, M. & DE LA RIVA, I. 2022. Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea. Zootaxa 5202 (1): 1-197 - get paper here
- Schmidt, K. P. 1923. Contributions to the herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Part II. Snakes, with field notes by Herbert Lang and James P. Chapin. Bull. Amer. Mus. nat. Hist. 49 (1): 1-146 - get paper here
- Spawls, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. 2002. A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 pp. [reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147] - get paper here
- 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
- 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.
- Witte, G. F. de 1933. Reptiles récoltés au Conge Belge par le Dr. H. Schouteden et par M. G.-F. Witte. Ann. Mus. Conge belge Zool. Ser. 1 Tome III: 53-100.
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