Dipsadoboa duchesnii
Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Colubroidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Dipsadoboa
Species: Dipsadoboa duchesnii
Name
[edit]- Dipsadoboa duchesnii (Boulenger, 1901)
Lectotype: BMNH 1946.1.8.39 (formerly BMNH 1901.6.19.1), ♂. [designated by Hughes & Barry (1969: 1020)]
Type locality: “Umangi, Bas Congo [=Central Congo]”.
Paralectotype: RGMC 476, ♀, from “Mandungu at Itimbiri, Haut-Congo”. [designated by Hughes & Barry (1969: 1020)]
Combinations
[edit]- Leptodira [sic] duchesnii Boulenger, 1901: 10 [original combination]
- Leptodeira duchesnii — Schmidt, 1923: 109 [subsequent combination]
- Dipsoglyphophis duchesnii — Barbour & Amaral, 1927: 26 [subsequent combination]
- Dipsadoboa duchesnii — Bogert, 1940: 64 [subsequent combination]
Synonyms
[edit]Holotype: ZMB [apparently lost acc. Rasmussen (1989: 250)]
Type locality: “Bipindi”, South Region, Cameroon.
- Leptodira nigeriensis Werner, 1913: 27 [synonymized by Rasmussen (1989: 250)]
Holotype: ZMB ♀. [apparently lost Koepcke, in lit. acc. Rasmussen (1989: 250)]
Type locality: “Südnigeria (Umgebung von Gana Gana unf Sagbama, Niger-Delta)”.
- Chamaetortus aulicus ellenbergeri Chabanaud, 1916: 375 [synonymized by Broadley & Stevens (1971: 1)]
Holotype: MNHN 16227.
Type locality: “Lambaréné”, Moyen-Ogooué Province, Gabon.
- Dipsadomorphus myops Chabanaud, 1917: 453 [synonymized with Leptodeira nigeriensis by Werner (1924); with duchesnii by Rasmussen (1989: 250)]
Holotype: MNHN 1902.106.
Type locality: “Gabon”.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Boulenger, G. A. 1901. Materiaux pour la faune du Congo. Batraciens et reptiles nouveaux. Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge. Sciences Zoologiques (sect. C. ser. 1) 2: 7–14.
- Sternfeld, R. [1907] 1908. Die Schlangenfauna von Kamerun. Mit einer Bestimmungstabelle. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 3(4): 397–432. BHL Reference page.
- Chabanaud, P. 1916. Enumération des Ophidiens non encore étudiés de l'Afrique occidentale, appartenant aux Collections du Muséum avec le description des espèces et des variétés nouvelles. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 1ème 22: 362–382. BHL
- Chabanaud, P. 1917. Revision de quelques Reptiles d'Afrique et descriptions de trois espéces nouvelles. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 1ème 23: 442–454. BHL
Additional references
[edit]- Rasmussen, J.B. 1989. A taxonomic review of the Dipsadoboa duchesnei complex. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 40(3/4): 249–264.
- Broadley, D.G. 1998. The reptilian fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa). in Schmidt, K.P. & Noble, G.K. Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo. [reprint of the 1919 and 1923 papers]. SSAR Facsimile reprints in Herpetology, 780 pp.
Links
[edit]- Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Dipsadoboa duchesnei. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 17 April 2018.