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
Leptotyphlops bicolor
Jan, 1860
MATERIAL EXAMINED. —
7 specimens
(
GHS-W 1094
, Sodo Zion;
T 97-101
, Fazao;
T 104
, Alédjo;
T 146
, Agavé)
.
MORPHOLOGY. — Charaters of GHS-W 1094: TL
115 mm
; 14 MSR, smooth; 265 scales on a longitudinal row between the parietals and the tip of the tail.
DISTRIBUTION. — Additional specimens not yet deposited were obtained from Fazao and Aledjo (Aledjo Kadara). This species is thus present in ER II and IV but may also occur in other ecological regions of the country. Previously it had been mentioned from
Togo
by
Matschie (1893)
,
Sternfeld (1908b
,
1909
),
Hulselmans & Verheyen (1970)
on the basis of specimens collected at Kolokope in ER III.
Trape & Mané (2006b)
provided a regional distribution of this species.