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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albertosv@mncn.csic.es
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-11-03
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Afronatrix anoscopus
(Cope, 1861)
Tropidonotus anoscopus
Cope, 1861c: 299
.
Type
locality: “
Cuba
” in error fide
Loveridge (1941)
; corrected to
Liberia
(
Loveridge 1941
).
Tropidonotus ferox
Günther, 1863: 355
.
Type
locality: “
Fernando Po
”,
Bioko
.
Natrix anoscopus
(Cope, 1861)
:
Cope 1892b: 673
.
Helicops gendrii
Boulenger, 1910: 512
.
Type
locality: “
Labé
,
French Guinea
”.
Natrix firestonei
Taylor & Weyer, 1958: 1210
.
Type
locality:
Liberia
.
Afronatrix anoscopus
(Cope, 1861)
:
Rossman & Eberle 1977: 42
.
Distribution
. This species ranges from
Senegal
to
Cameroon
. In
Equatorial Guinea
it has been recorded in Bioko (
Günther 1863a
;
Boulenger 1893
;
Bocage 1903
) (
Map 25C
).
Comments.
There are no precise localities for this species in
Equatorial Guinea
. The genus
Afronatrix
is sister to the clade comprising
Hydraethiops
Günther, 1872
and
Helophis
Witte & Laurent, 1942
(
Deepak
et al.
2021
).
Specimens examined.
No specimens have been found in the examined collections.