Python natalensis Smith, 1833

Marques, Mariana P., Parrinha, Diogo, Lopes-Lima, Manuel, Tiutenko, Arthur, Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2024, An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola, ZooKeys 1201, pp. 167-217 : 167-217

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1201.120750
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:23C7E6E7-AE73-4685-AEDA-26DEB0EE0068
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11196752
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4FCE32C7-F5E1-5E48-9A23-98B6C84702AF
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scientific name	Python natalensis Smith, 1833
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Python natalensis Smith, 1833 View in CoL

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Record.

Maylowe [- 13.8342, 13.2767, 803 m] (photographic record, specimens not collected).

Comments.

This species is widely distributed throughout southern Angola ( Marques et al. 2018). The skin in the photograph is held by local Mucubal people in the town of Maylowe, where it was killed.

Marques MP, Ceríaco LMP, Blackburn DC, Bauer AM (2018) Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola – Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840 – 2017). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 (65, Supplement II): 1 – 501.

Figures

Figure 10. a Python natalensis (skin) b Bitis (Macrocerastes) gabonica c Causus nasalis d Boaedon variegatus e Hemirhagerrhis viperina f Lycophidion hellmichi g Psammophis subtaeniatus. Photographs by LMPC (a, c, f); AT (d, e, g) and DP (b).