Boaedon fuliginosus (Boie, 1827)
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13258253 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FE87B6-436F-F408-DDAF-8A5AFC6EFE62 |
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Boaedon fuliginosus (Boie, 1827) |
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Boaedon fuliginosus (Boie, 1827) View in CoL
Brown House Snake
Material. MOUNT LICO (base): PEM R 23932. Identification. Scalation: 221 ventrals, 51 subcaudals, 1 preocular, 2 postoculars, 1+2+3 temporals, 8 upper labials with 4 th and 5 th entering the orbit, 9 lower labials with the 1 st four in contact with the first sublingual, 25 midbody scale rows ( Fig. 4O View Fig ). The Boaedon lineatusfuliginosus-capensis species complex is one of the most complicated groups of African snakes ( Hughes 1997), and many species have been proposed or described in recent years ( Trape and Mediannikov 2016). While Trape and Mediannikov (2016) retrict the name Boaedon fuliginosus to the darker form in West Africa that lacks distinct head markings, we tentatively assign our specimen to B. fuliginosus based on an overall plain coloration until the taxonomy of this group is resolved. The closest match on GenBank is B. fuliginosus from an unknown location (99% sequence similarity; JF 357940). Comments. Collected in the Eucalyptus plantation near the campsite.
Hughes B. 1997. Dasypeltis scabra and Lamprophis fuliginosus, two pan-African snakes in the Horn of Africa: a tribute to Don Broadley. African Journal of Herpetology 46: 68 - 77.
Trape J-F, Mediannikov O. 2016. Cinq serpents nouveaux du genre Boaedon Dumeril, Bibron, and Dumeril, 1854 (Serpentes: Lamprophiidae) en Afrique centrale. Bulletin de la Societe Herpetologique de France 159: 61 - 111.
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Port Elizabeth Museum |
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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile |
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Jonkershoek Forestry Research Centre |
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