Toxicodryas adamanteus Greenbaum, Allen, Vaughan, Pauwels, Wallach, Kusamba, Muninga, Mwenebatu, Mali , Badjedjea, Penner, Rödel, Rivera, Sterkhova, Johnson, Tapoandjou & Brown, 2021

Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto, Calvo-Revuelta, Marta & Riva, Ignacio De La, 2022, Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea, Zootaxa 5202 (1), pp. 1-197 : 84-89

Toxicodryas adamanteus Greenbaum, Allen, Vaughan, Pauwels, Wallach, Kusamba, Muninga, Mwenebatu, Mali, Badjedjea, Penner, Rödel, Rivera, Sterkhova, Johnson, Tapoandjou & Brown, 2021

Figure 21C

Toxicodryas adamanteus Greenbaum, Allen, Vaughan, Pauwels, Wallach, Kusamba, Muninga, Mwenebatu, Mali, Badjedjea, Penner, Rödel, Rivera, Sterkhova, Johnson, Tapoandjou & Brown, 2021 .

Type locality: “ Npenda village , NE of Lake Tumba (00.7465°S, 18.2243°E, 311 m), Equateur Province, DRC ” .

Distribution. It extends from the East of the Niger Delta to Kenya, southward to northern Angola ( Greenbaum et al. 2021). In Equatorial Guinea it has been recorded both from Bioko ( Boulenger 1896; Bocage 1903) and Río Muni, at Cabo San Juan ( Boulenger 1905) and Monte Alén National Park ( Lasso et al. 2002) ( Map 24A ).

Comments. A recently described species splitted from T. pulverulenta (Fisher, 1856) where it was formerly included ( Greenbaum et al. 2021). There are no precise records of this species for Bioko ( Mertens 1964a).

Specimens examined. Fifteen specimens. Equatorial Guinea, without specific locality, but likely part of the material examined by Boulenger (1905) from Cabo San Juan ( MNCN 23813 ) . Río Muni: Miboman (30 km from Niefang), 01 February 1987 [ EBD 25023 (includes 6 specimens)] ; Miboman (road to Niefang), 7–8 July 1986 ( EBD 20824–20825 ) , 6 September 1986 ( EBD 20823) ; Miboman (road of Bata-Movo-Niefang), August 1987 ( EBD 27530) ; Miboman , December 1987 ( EBD 27738) ; Bata , December 1987 ( EBD 27746) ; Bata (road of Movo-Miboman-Niefang), September 1987 ( EBD 27518) ; San Joaquín de Ndyiacom (road from Bata to Ayamiken), 03 February 1987 ( EBD 24978) .

Figures

FIGURE 21. From left to right: lateral, dorsal and ventral views of the head of: Thrasops flavigularis, adult specimen (A) (MNCN 9052), Thrasops flavigularis, juvenile specimen (B) (MNCN 19977), and Toxicodryas adamanteus (C) (EBD 27746). Photos: AS-V.

MAPS 24 A–C. Distribution maps for Equatorial Guinean records of (A) Toxicodryas adamanteus (question mark represents an imprecise record); (B) Toxicodryas blandingii; (C) Grayia caesar (question mark represents an imprecise record).