The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems
Author
Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude
Département de Zoologie et Biologie animale, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, BP 1515, Lomé (Togo) h _ segniagbeto @ yahoo. fr
Author
Trape, Jean François
Laboratoire de Paludologie et Zoologie médicale, UR 77, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Centre de Dakar, BP 1386, Dakar (Senegal) jean-françois. trape @ ird. fr
trape@ird.fr
Author
David, Patrick
Author
Ohler, Annemarie
Author
Dubois, Alain
UMR 7205 OSEB, Reptiles et Amphibiens, Département de Systématique et Évolution, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CP 30, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) pdavid @ mnhn. fr ohler @ mnhn. fr adubois @ mnhn. fr
pdavid@mnhn.fr
Author
Glitho, Isabelle Adolé
Département de Zoologie et Biologie animale, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Lomé, BP 1515, Lomé (Togo) iglitho @ yahoo. fr
iglitho@yahoo.fr
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Zoosystema
2011
2011-09-30
33
3
325
360
http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2011n3a4
journal article
10.5252/z2011n3a4
1638-9387
4547017
Aparallactus modestus
(Günther, 1859)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. —
14 specimens
(Côte d’Ivoire:
MNHN 1992.4286
-
4289
;
Togo
: GHS-0042,
Sodo Zion
; GHS-W 1036, GHS-W 1038, GHS-W 1049-50, GHS-W 1058,
MRAC
A7036.0024
,
MRAC
A7036.0026
,
T 142
,
Agou
[
Mont Agou
];
ZMB
10725,
Togo
, no precise locality)
.
MORPHOLOGY. — TL from
210 to 640 mm
; 15 MSR, smooth; 132-161 Ven, smooth; 19-46 Sc, all single; anal single; 7 supralabials; 7-8 infralabials; 1 preocular; 2 (seldom 1) postoculars; temporal scale formula 0 + 1.
DISTRIBUTION. — This species had been mentioned from
Togo
by
Matschie (1893)
,
Sternfeld (1908b
,
1909
) and
Loveridge (1944)
from Adele and Missahohe, as well as from Grand Popo, now in
Benin
, and Wegbe, now in
Ghana
. Available specimens suggest that this species occurs in ER III, IV and V of the country.