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
Lycophidion nigromaculatum
(Peters, 1863)
MATERIAL EXAMINED. —
5 specimens
(
MRAC
A7036.0027
, GHS-W 1042, GHS-W 1044, Agou; GHS-W 1442, Sodo Zion, Tr 138, Kebo-Dzigbe [Mont Agou])
.
MORPHOLOGY. — TL from
302 to 480 mm
; 17 MSR, smooth; 171-192 Ven, smooth; 41-50 Sc, paired; anal single; 8 supralabials; 9 infralabials; 1 preocular; 2 postoculars; temporal scale formula 1 + 2.
DISTRIBUTION. — First record from
Togo
. Localities cited in this paper mark the eastern limit of the range of this species. In
Togo
we found it in the forest area.
Leaché
et al.
(2006)
recorded this species in the forested area between
Togo
and
Ghana
.