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Thrasops flavigularis (HALLOWELL, 1852)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Yellow-throated Bold-eyed Tree snake 
SynonymDendrophis flavigularis HALLOWELL 1852: 205
Dendrophis flavigularis — HALLOWELL 1857: 66
Thrasops flavigularis — HALLOWELL 1857: 67
Hapsidophrys niger GÜNTHER 1872: 25
Thrasops pustulatus BUCHHOLZ & PETERS 1875: 199
Thrasops flavigularis — BOETTGER 1889: 279
Thrasops flavigularis — BOULENGER 1894: 105
Thrasops flavigularis — BOULENGER 1897: 278
Thrasops flavigularis — BROADLEY 1998
Thrasops flavigularis — PAUWELS et al. 2004
Thrasops flavigularis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 730 
DistributionSW Nigeria, Gabon, Cameroon, E Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Congo (Brazzaville), Equatorial Guinea

Type locality: Gabon (see comment)
Type locality: “Cameruns [Cameroon], Mungo [Angola]” [Thrasops pustulatus]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMB 8335 (unlocated) [Thrasops pustulatus] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Dorsal scales in 13-15 rows at midbody; the dorsals much longer than the ventrals; ventrals 191-214; subcaudals 128-146; usually 2 labials in contact with the lowest postocular; no enlarged occipitals (Broadley 2002). 
CommentDistribution: Not in Benin according to ULLENBRUCH et al. 2010. Has been erroneously listed for Benin but does not occur there (Hughes 2013); not in Liberia or Sierra Leone fide TRAPE & BALDÉ 2014: 320. For a map with localities in Equatorial Guinea see SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS et al. 2022.

HABITAT: Lowland forest, fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018)

Type species: Dendrophis flavigularis HALLOWELL 182: 20 is the type species of the genus Thrasops HALLOWELL 187.

Type locality: “Liberia”, later corrected to Gabon. 
Etymologynamed after its yellow throat (Latin “flavus = yellow, Latin “gula” = throat). 
References
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  • Boulenger, G. A. 1897. A list of reptiles and batrachians from the Congo Free State, with the description of two new snakes. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 19: 276-281 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, George A. 1894. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. British Mus. (Nat. Hist.), London, xi, 382 pp. - 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
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