Bothrolycus ater Gunther 1874
Description
Bothrolycus ater Günther, 1874
Figure 27C
Bothrolycus ater Günther, 1874: 444. Type locality: “ Cameroon mountains”.
Pseudoboodon albopunctatus Andersson, 1901: 6. Type locality: “ Mapanja, Cameroon ”.
Pseudoboodon brevicaudatus Andersson, 1901: 8. Type locality: “ Mapanja, Cameroon ”.
Distribution. It extends across Central Africa, from Cameroon to the East of Democratic Republic of the Congo. In Equatorial Guinea it has been recorded both in Bioko (Boulenger 1919) and Río Muni at Monte Alén National Park (Lasso et al. 2002), including Monte Mitra (Gonwouo & Nsang 2005) (Map 31B).
Comments. No precise records are known from Bioko. Bothrolycus is a monotypic genus sister to Bothrophthalmus (Zaher et al. 2019).
Specimens examined. One specimen. Río Muni: San Joaquín de Ndyiacom, 1990 (EBD 31496).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- EBD
- Family
- Lamprophiidae
- Genus
- Bothrolycus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Squamata
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Species
- ater
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bothrolycus ater Gunther, 1874 sec. Sánchez-Vialas, Calvo-Revuelta & Riva, 2022
References
- Boulenger, G. A. (1919) Batraciens et reptiles recueillis par le Dr. C. Christy dans les districts de Stanleyville, Haut-Uele et Ituri en 1912 - 1914. Revue Zoologique Africaine, 7 (1), 1 - 29. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 15108
- Lasso, C. A., Rial, A. I., Castroviejo, J. & De la Riva, I. (2002) Herpetofauna del Parque Nacional de Monte Alen (Rio Muni, Guinea Ecuatorial). Graellsia, 58, 21 - 34. https: // doi. org / 10.3989 / graellsia. 2002. v 58. i 2.276
- Gonwouo, N. L. & Nsang, A. (2005) An assessment of the reptiles and amphibians of the Monte Mitra forest, Monte Alen National Park. In: Sunderland, T. C. H. (Ed.), A Biodiversity Assessment of the Monte Mitra Forest, Monte Alen National Park, Equatorial Guinea. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., pp. 32 - 49.
- Zaher, H., Murphy, R. W., Arredondo, J. C., Graboski, R., Machado-Filho, P. R., Mahlow, K., Montingelli, G. G., Quadros, A. B., Orlov, N. L., Wilkinson, M., Zhang, Y. P. & Grazziotin, F. G. (2019) Large-scale molecular phylogeny, morphology, divergence-time estimation, and the fossil record of advanced caenophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes). PLoS ONE, 14 (5), e 0216148. https: // doi. org / 10.1371 / journal. pone. 0216148