Python regius (Shaw, 1802)

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 : 350

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2011n3a4
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scientific name	Python regius (Shaw, 1802)
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MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 12 specimens ( GHS-W 0072 , Legbassito [near Lomé]; GHS-Togo 08, GHS-Togo 36, Agbanon; MRAC A7036.0010 View Materials , GHS-W 1216-1217, GHS-Togo 03, GHS-Togo 31, Togo 32, Agavé ; GHS- Togo 19, Kuma-Tsamé; GHS-Togo 24, GHS-Togo 60, Sodo Zion) .

MORPHOLOGY. — TL from 420 to 1178 mm; 53-55 MSR, scales smooth; 197-206 Ven; 31-36 Sc, paired; anal single; 3-4 loreals, 11-13 supralabials; 14-15 infralabials and 4 anterior temporals.

DISTRIBUTION. — This species is very common throughout the country, especially in the South.The Ewe people consider it to be the embodiment of a divinity.It is abundant around Lake Togo and in the Mono. This species is as common in the forested areas of ER IV as in the Guinean savannahs where it is the most frequently encountered.Visual observations were obtained in the South as well as in the North. Recorded morphological characters on collected specimens are identical with those of Sternfeld (1908b, 1909: 9), Hulselmans & Verheyen (1970), Hulselmans et al. (1970, 1971), Villiers (1975), Roman (1984), Chippaux (2006), Leaché et al. (2006) and Trape & Mané (2006b).

CONSERVATION STATUS. — According to reports of the CITES Division of the DFC Togo, the incredibly high number of 212 093 living specimens were exported out of Togo between 2001 and 2005.