Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea
Author
Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto
Author
Calvo-Revuelta, Marta
0000-0002-8628-1055
Author
Riva, Ignacio De La
0000-0001-5064-4507
albertosv@mncn.csic.es
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-11-03
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5202.1.1
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Thelotornis kirtlandii
(
Hallowell, 1844
)
Figure 20A
Leptophis kirtlandii
Hallowell, 1844: 62
.
Type
locality: “
Liberia
”, Republic of Liberia.
Oxybelis lecomtei
Duméril & Bibron, 1854: 821
.
Type
locality: “
Gabon
”.
Tragops rufulus
Duméril & Bibron, 1854: 827
.
Type
locality: “
Sénégal
”.
Dryophis kirtlandii
(
Hallowell, 1844
)
:
Hallowell 1854b: 100
.
Oxybelis violacea
Fischer, 1856: 91
.
Type
locality: “
Edina
,
Grand Bassa County
,
West-Afrika
”.
Oxybelis kirtlandii
(
Hallowell, 1844
)
:
Hallowell 1857: 59
.
Thelotornis kirtlandii
(
Hallowell, 1844
)
:
Fischer 1884b: 11
.
Distribution
. This species ranges across tropical forests from West Africa (
Guinea
Bissau
) to East Africa at southern
Sudan
and
Uganda
, and south to
Angola
. In
Equatorial Guinea
it has been recorded in the islands of Bioko (
Günther 1863a
;
Bocage 1895
a
, 1903) at Bahía de San Carlos (
Boulenger 1906
;
Loveridge 1944
;
Capocaccia 1961a
) and Elobey (Pérez del
Val 2001
), and in
Río Muni
at Bata (Pérez del
Val 2001
), Cabo San Juan (
Boulenger 1905
; Pérez del
Val 2001
) and Monte Alén National Park (
Lasso
et al.
2002
) (
Map 22C
).
Comments.
We
provide the first record of this species for the
Island of Corisco. The
specimens MNCN 23257 and MNCN 23259 contained two and
six eggs
respectively (labelled as follows:
MNCN 23260
for the
two eggs
of the female MNCN 23257, and MNCN 23258 for the
six eggs
of the female
MNCN 23259
).
The
eggs are elongated in shape; both MNCN 23260 are around 5,1 x 1,5 cm, whereas the
six eggs
(
MNCN 23260
) are around 4 x 1,8 cm. There is a record from iNaturalist at Riaba, Bioko (
03°21′19.00″N
,
08°42′54.06″E
).
Specimens examined.
Twelve
specimens.
Island of Corisco
(
MNCN 23257
,
MNCN 23259
).
Island of Elobey
(
MNCN 23261
)
.
Bioko
: 1876-1877 (
MNCN 23264–23265
)
.
Río Muni
:
Bata
,
Litoral
,
July 1891
(
MNCN 23262
)
;
Cabo San Juan
, likely as part of the material examined by
Boulenger (1905)
(
MNCN 23263
)
;
Miboman
,
December 1987
(
EBD
27756)
;
Miboman
(road from
Movo
to
Niefang
),
February 1987
(
EBD
27540)
;
San Joaquín de Ndyiacom
(road to
Ayamiken
),
01 August 1986
(
EBD
25012)
;
San Joaquín de Ndyiacom
, 1990 [
2 specimens
labelled as B9500 and B9632; both with a shared number (
EBD
31495) with a specimen of
Thrasops batesii
]
.