Compsophis boulengeri

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Elapoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Elapoidea

Compsophis boulengeri (Peracca, 1892)

Tachymenis boulengeri Peracca, 1892: 3 [original combination]
Geodipsas boulengeri — Boulenger, 1896: 32 [subsequent combination]
Compsophis boulengeri — Glaw, Nagy & Vences, 2007: 60 [subsequent combination]

Geodipsas heimi Angel, 1936: 127 [synonymised by Cadle (1996: 34)]
- Holotype: MNHN 1936-19, adult ♂, collected by M. Heim.
- Type locality: “une prairie marécageuse, au long de la rivière Sahandrato, en amont de Tsianovoha”.

Peracca, M.G. 1892. Descrizione di nuove specie di Rettili e Anfibi di Madagascar. Bollettino dei Musei di zoologia ed anatomia comparata della R. Università di Torino 7(112): 1–5. BHL
Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III. Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ), Amblycephalidæ, and Viperidæ. British Museum (Natural History): London. xiv + 727 pp. BHL Reference page.
Angel, F. 1936. Materiaux erpetologiques recueillis a Madagascar par M. Roger Heim, Chargé de Mission. Description de deux formes nouvelles. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 2ème série 8(2): 125–139. BHL
Cadle, J.E. 1996. Systematics of snakes of the genus Geodipsas (Colubridae) from Madagascar, with descriptions of new species and observations on natural history. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 155(2): 33–87. BHL
Glaw, F., Nagy, Z.T. & Vences, M. 2007. Phylogenetic relationships and classification of the Malagasy pseudoxyrhophiine snake genera Geodipsas and Compsophis based on morphological and molecular data. Zootaxa 1517(1): 53–62. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1517.1.2 ; ResearchGate Reference page.

Raselimanana, A. & Raxworthy, C.J. 2011. IUCN: Compsophis boulengeri (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011: e.T172833A6926661. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T172833A6926661.en. Accessed on 02 February 2026.