Dispholidus typus (Smith, 1829)

Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean François, David, Patrick, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain & Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, 2011, The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems, Zoosystema 33 (3), pp. 325-360 : 333

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2011n3a4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4547038

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scientific name

Dispholidus typus (Smith, 1829)
status

 

Dispholidus typus (Smith, 1829)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 9 specimens ( GHS-W 0202 , Nangbeto, GHS-W 0220, Legbassito, near Lomé, GHS-W 1220, Agave, GHS-Togo 25, T 22 , Sodo Zion; GHS-Togo 58, Sodo; T 175 , Alédjo; MRAC 29578 View Materials , Kolokope; MRAC 29636 View Materials , Togoville) .

MORPHOLOGY. — TL of our specimens from 1320 mm to 1710 mm; 19 MSR keeled and oblique; 171-192 Ven, smooth; 112-127 Sc; anal divided; 8-9 supralabials; 9-12 infralabials; 1 preocular; 3 postoculars; temporal scale formula 1 + 2 + 2 or 3.

DISTRIBUTION. — This species is widespread in Togo, in the South as well as in the North. Our northernmost specimen is from Aledjo but this species might be present at Bassar and Kara, and in ER I. Its occurrence in Togo had previously been mentioned by Sternfeld (1908b, 1909: 21), Hulselmans & Verheyen (1970), Roman (1984), Spawls & Branch (1995) and David & Ineich (1999).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Colubridae

Genus

Dispholidus

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