Psammophis subtaeniatus Peters, 1882

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.11196765

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/81F8BE84-99FA-507A-8E05-87D4ED78EE54

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Psammophis subtaeniatus Peters, 1882
status

 

Psammophis subtaeniatus Peters, 1882 View in CoL

Fig. 10 g View Figure 10

Records.

Maylowe [- 13.8342, 13.2767, 803 m] ( CAS 266140); Catchi surroundings [- 13.7620, 13.2569, 1585 m] (MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001544); 2 km N of Maylowe [- 13.8280, 13.2625, 803 m] (MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001545).

Comments.

Species restricted to dry shrublands and savannas, particularly Mopane woodland, and widely distributed from southern Angola and northern Namibia eastwards through Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe to western Mozambique ( Marques et al. 2018). Specimen MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001545 was collected on sandy substrate near a rocky outcrop while active at night.

CAS

California Academy of Sciences

MB

Universidade de Lisboa, Museu Bocage

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Psammophiidae

Genus

Psammophis