Philothamnus ornatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata 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: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Philothamnus ornatus Bocage, 1872: 80

Syntypes (n=3): MBL (2), ♂ and ♀, collected by J.A. d’Anchieta in 1871 [Huilla], and MBL, ♀, collected by Hopffer in 1871 [Cacheu]. [destroyed by fire 18 March 1978]
Type locality: “Cacheu, sur la côté de Guinée, Afrique occidentale”.

Bocage, J.V.B. 1872. Diagnoses de quelques espéces nouvelles de Reptiles d'Afrique occidentale. Jornal de sciencias mathematicas, physicas e naturaes 4: 72–82. BHL

Auerbach, R.D. 1987. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Botswana. Gaborone Printing Works, Botswana, 295 pp.
Broadley, D.G. 1998. The reptilian fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa). In: Schmidt, K.P. and 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.

Wagner, P., Safari, I., Chenga, J. & Kusamba, C. 2021. IUCN: Philothamnus ornatus (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T43130757A43130761. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T43130757A43130761.en. Accessed on 25 May 2026.