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

Python natalensis Smith, 1833

Fig. 10 a

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.

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).