Boaedon capensis Dumeril & Bibron, 1854

Conradie, Werner, Bittencourt-Silva, Gabriela B., Engelbrecht, Hanlie M., Loader, Simon P., Menegon, Michele, Nanvonamuquitxo, Cristovao, Scott, Michael & Tolley, Krystal A., 2016, Exploration into the hidden world of Mozambique's sky island forests: new discoveries of reptiles and amphibians, Zoosystematics and Evolution 92 (2), pp. 163-180 : 172

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.92.9948

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9DA068DA-B881-4091-99FE-252D31DDC7D1

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FBD1B163-453B-5774-A39F-CB1725D97ACB

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scientific name

Boaedon capensis Dumeril & Bibron, 1854
status

 

Boaedon capensis Dumeril & Bibron, 1854

Material

Mt. M’pàluwé ( PEM R21229 View Materials , male 147 SVL + 98 mm TL) .

Comments

A female specimen donated by a local, presumably obtained from near Ribáuè town. We follow Portik et al. (2013a) and refer to this specimen as capensis , rather than fuliginosus, based on general colouration.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Lamprophiidae

Genus

Boaedon