BOIDAE Gray, 1825

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 : 330

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scientific name	BOIDAE Gray, 1825
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Family BOIDAE Gray, 1825

Gongylophis muelleri Boulenger, 1892 ( Fig. 2 View FIG )

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 1 adult ♀ ( MRAC 29651 View Materials ), 1 juvenile ( MRAC 29663 View Materials ), Borgou ; 1 đ ( MRAC 29472 View Materials ), Nanergou .

Three adult specimens obtained in Mango were examined in the FEXAS, a snake farm for the pet trade.

MORPHOLOGY. — TL of adult specimens 658 mm and 776 mm, juvenile 335 mm, 45-47 MSR, scales smooth; 175-182 Ven; 14-21 Sc, single; anal single; 2-3 loreals; 9-10 supralabials; 12-14 infralabials; 9-10 scales surrounding the eye and 6 interobital scales.

DISTRIBUTION. — This burrowing species was recorded only in ER I. It was previously mentioned from Togo by Sternfeld (1908b, 1909: 9) from Mango and Borgou, Hulselmans et al. (1970, 1971) and Roman (1984).