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Chamaelycus fasciatus

  • 1. Département de Zoologie et Biologie animale, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, BP 1515, Lomé (Togo) h _ segniagbeto @ yahoo. fr
  • 2. Laboratoire de Paludologie et Zoologie médicale, UR 77, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Centre de Dakar, BP 1386, Dakar (Senegal) jean-françois. trape @ ird. fr
  • 3. UMR 7205 OSEB, Reptiles et Amphibiens, Département de Systématique et Évolution, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CP 30, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) pdavid @ mnhn. fr ohler @ mnhn. fr adubois @ mnhn. fr
  • 4. Département de Zoologie et Biologie animale, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, BP 1515, Lomé (Togo) iglitho @ yahoo. fr

Description

Chamaelycus fasciatus (Günther, 1858)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 2 specimens (ZMB 21975, “ Togo ”; MRAC 73 14 R 58, Kolokope).

MORPHOLOGY. — TL of our specimens from 274 to 415 mm; 17 MSR, scales smooth; 165 and 201 Ven, smooth; 39 and 41 Sc, paired; anal single; 6 supralabials; 7 infralabials; 1 preocular; 2 postoculars; temporal scale formula: 1 + 2 + 3.

DISTRIBUTION. — This species should be present in ER III, IV and V. Matschie (1893), Sternfeld (1908b, 1909 from Missahohe) and Chippaux (2006) recorded it from the forested area of Togo.

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 325-360 in Zoosystema 33 (3) on pages 340-341, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4547017

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZMB
Family
Lamprophiidae
Genus
Chamaelycus
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
MRAC 73
Order
Squamata
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Gunther
Species
fasciatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Chamaelycus fasciatus (Gunther, 1858) sec. Segniagbeto, Trape, David, Ohler, Dubois & Glitho, 2011

References

  • MATSCHIE P. 1893. - Die Reptilien und Amphibien Togogebietes. Mittheilungen von Forschungsreisenden und Gelehrten aus den deutschen Schutzgebieten, mit Benutzung amtlicher Quellen 6: 207 - 215.
  • STERNFELD L. 1908 b. - Die Schlangenfauna Togos. Mittheilungen Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 4: 207 - 236.
  • STERNFELD L. 1909. - Die Schlangen Togos, in Die Fauna der deutschen Kolonien 1 (1): iv + 29 p., map.
  • CHIPPAUX J. - P. 2006. - Les serpents d'Afrique Occidentale et Centrale. Collection Faune et Flore tropicales, Paris, IRD Editions 35: 311 p.