Boaedon olivaceus

Boaedon olivaceus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Lamprophiidae
Genus: Boaedon
Species:
B. olivaceus
Binomial name
Boaedon olivaceus
(Duméril, 1856)[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Holuropholis olivaceus Duméril, 1856[2]
  • Boodon poensis Günther, 1888[3]
  • Boodon olivaceus Boulenger, 1892[4]
  • Boaedon olivaceus stirnensis Stucki-Stirn, 1979
  • Lamprophis olivaceus Broadley, 1983

Boaedon olivaceus is a species of snake in the family Lamprophiidae. The species is endemic to Africa.

Taxonomic history

Eli Greenbaum and colleagues described the taxonomy of this species as being "relatively stable for over a century".[5] Auguste Duméril described this species in 1856, making it the type species of his newly-circumscribed genus Holuropholis. Charles Eugène Aubry-Lecomte collected the holotype.[2] The junior synonym Boodon poensis was described by Albert Günther in 1888,.[3] George Albert Boulenger synonymized the two species, classifying it in the genus Boodon.[4][5] Arthur Loveridge classified it in the genus Boaedon in 1957.[6]

In 1974, M. C. Stucki-Stirn described a subspecies B. olivaceus stirnensis, but it was synonymized with the species itself in 2014.[5]

Distribution

The type locality of this species is Gabon,[2] and the type locality of its junior synonym B. poensis is Bioko.[3]

It is found in Central and West and East Africa.[5] Countries it has been recorded in include: the Democratic Republic of the Congo,[7] Central African Republic,[8] Gabon,[9] Guinea,[10] and Togo.[11]

It is found in and near rainforests.[5]

Description

Its total length is 850 mm (33 in). It has small eyes,[12] which can be orange, red, or reddish-brown. Its dorsum is glossy and colored dark gray or a dark, greyish-brown.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Uetz, Peter; Hallermann, Jakob. "Boaedon olivaceus (Duméril, 1856)". The Reptile Database. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  2. ^ a b c Duméril, Aug. (1856). "Note sur les reptiles du Gabon". Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée. 2e série. 8: 466.
  3. ^ a b c Günther, A. (1888). "Contribution to the Knowledge of Snakes of Tropical Africa". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Ser. 6. 1: 330–331.
  4. ^ a b Boulenger, G. A. (1892). "On some Reptiles collected by Luigi Robecchi Bricchetti in Somaliland". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. Ser. 2. 12: 15.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Greenbaum, Eli; Portillo, Frank; Jackson, Kate; Kusamba, Chifundera (2015). "A phylogeny of Central African Boaedon (Serpentes: Lamprophiidae), with the description of a new cryptic species from the Albertine Rift". African Journal of Herpetology. 64 (1): 19. Bibcode:2015AfJH...64...18G. doi:10.1080/21564574.2014.996189. S2CID 83976724.
  6. ^ Loveridge, Arthur (1957). "Check List of the Reptiles and Amphibians of East Africa (Uganda; Kenya; Tanganyika; Zanzibar)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 117 (2): 251.
  7. ^ Schmidt, Karl Patterson (1923). "Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo Based on the Collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Part II.—Snakes". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 49 (1): 66–67. hdl:2246/488.
  8. ^ Chirio, Laurent; Ineich, Ivan (2006). "Biogeography of the Reptiles of the Central African republic". African Journal of Herpetology. 55 (1): 48. Bibcode:2006AfJH...55...23C. doi:10.1080/21564574.2006.9635538. S2CID 84692665.
  9. ^ Carlino, Piero; Pauwels, Olivier S. G. (2015). "An Updated Reptile List of Ivindo National Park, the Herpetofaunal Hotspot of Gabon" (PDF). Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society. 50 (3): 32.
  10. ^ Böhme, Wolfgang; Rödel, Mark-Oliver; Brede, Christian; Wagner, Philipp (2011). "The reptiles (Testudines, Squamata, Crocodylia) of the forested southeast of the Republic Guinea (Guinée forestière), with a country-wide checklist". Bonn Zoological Bulletin. 60 (1): 44.
  11. ^ 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" (PDF). Zoosystema. 33 (3): 342. doi:10.5252/z2011n3a4. S2CID 84017614.
  12. ^ Boulenger, George Albert (1893). "Boodon olivaceus". Typhlopidæ, Glauconiidæ, Boidæ, Ilysiidæ, Uropeltidæ, Xenopeltidæ, and Colubridæ Aglyphæ, part. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Vol. 1. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 335–336.


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