Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea
Author
Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto
Author
Calvo-Revuelta, Marta
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Author
Riva, Ignacio De La
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-11-03
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Dendroaspis jamesoni
(
Traill, 1843
)
Figure 25C
Elaps jamesoni
Traill, 1843: 53
.
Type
locality: “
Demerara
, Equinoxial America” in error, corrected to
West Africa
fide
Mertens
(1938).
Dendraspis angusticeps
Duméril, 1856: 558
(non Smith).
Type
locality: “Envoyé du
Gabon
”.
Dendraspis welwitschii
Günther, 1865: 97
.
Type
locality: “Golungo Alto, …
Angola
”.
Dinophis fasciolatus
Fischer, 1885: 111
.
Type
locality: “Westafrika”.
Dendraspis jamesonii
(
Traill, 1843
)
:
Boettger 1888: 85
.
Dendraspis neglectus
Bocage, 1903: 44
.
Type
locality: “Fernão do Pó”, Bioko.
Dendroaspis jamesoni kaimosae
Loveridge, 1936a: 64
.
Type
locality: “Kaimosi forest, …, Kakamega district, Nyanza Province,
Kenya
Colony”.
Distribution
. This species extends from
Togo
to
Sudan
. In
Equatorial Guinea
it has been recorded in Bioko (
Boulenger 1896
;
Bocage 1903
;
Drewes
et al.
1999
) at Riaba (=Concepción) (
Mertens 1941
) and Ureca (
Mertens 1964a
), and in
Río Muni
at Cabo San Juan (
Boulenger 1905
) and Monte Alén National Park (
Lasso
et al.
2002
), including Monte Mitra (
Gonwouo & Nsang 2005
) (
Map 29A
).
Comments.
There are two currently recognized subspecies:
Dendroaspis jamesoni jamesoni
, widespread across most of the species range, including
Equatorial Guinea
, and
D. j. kaimosae
, restricted to eastern region of the species range, from the eastern of
Democratic Republic of the Congo
to
Kenya
and
Uganda
.
Specimens examined.
Fifteen
specimens.
Equatorial Guinea
: without specific locality, but likely
Cabo San Juan
as part of the material examined by
Boulenger (1905)
(
MNCN 22869
)
.
Río Muni
:
Río Utoche
,
10 August 1909
(
MNCN 22307
)
;
Cogo
,
08 February 1984
(
EBD
18674)
;
Miboman
(road to Niefang) (
EBD
20920)
;
Miboman
,
Km
27 road from
Bata
to
Movo
,
02 June 1985
(
EBD
20778)
;
Miboman
(road to Niefang),
08 July 1986
(
EBD 20776–20777
)
;
Miboman
(road from Bata to Niefang) (
EBD
24969)
;
Asonga
,
17 August 1986
(
EBD
24970)
;
Miboman
,
December 1987
(
EBD 27784–27785
)
;
San Joaquín de Ndyiacom
,
April 1988
(
EBD
27783)
;
San Joaquín de Ndyiacom
(road from Bata to Ayamiken),
03 February 1987
(
EBD
24971)
;
Colegio de la Salle
,
Bata
,
November 1960
(
EBD 2871
)
;
Acurenam
,
27 August 1984
(
EBD
18369)
.