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
Atractaspis aterrima
Günther, 1863
MATERIAL EXAMINED. —
14 specimens
(
MRAC 29590
, Tetetou; GHS-W-Togo 86, Agave; GHS-W 1039, GHS-W 1045, Agou; GHS-Togo 01, Missahohe; GHS-W 0053, GHS-W 1067-68, GHS-W 1100, GHS-W 1418, GHS-W 1441, Sodo Zion; GHS-W 1259, Yo [Agome Yo],
T 132
,
T 160
, Fazao)
.
MORPHOLOGY. — TL from
325 to 720 mm
; 19-21 MSR, smooth; 254-285 Ven, smooth; 18-27 Sc, all single; anal single; 5 supralabials (
6 in
specimens GHS-W 1039 and
GHS-W
1045); 3-5 infralabials; 1 preocular; 1 postocular; 1 very large anterior temporal.
DISTRIBUTION. — This widespread species occurs in all ecological regions of the country. Previously, it had been mentioned from
Togo
by
Sternfeld (1908b
,
1909
),
Hulselmans & Verheyen (1970)
,
Spawls & Branch (1995)
,
David & Ineich (1999)
and
Chippaux (2006)
.