Mehelya poensis (Smith, 1847)

Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean François, David, Patrick, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain & Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, 2011, The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems, Zoosystema 33 (3), pp. 325-360 : 344

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2011n3a4
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scientific name	Mehelya poensis (Smith, 1847)
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Mehelya poensis (Smith, 1847) View in CoL

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 8 specimens ( MRAC 29667 View Materials , Missahohe; GHS-W 1250 , GHS 1256, Yo [Agome Yo]; MRAC A7036.0003 View Materials , GHS-Togo 16, Agave; GHS-Togo 02, Missahohe; GHS-Togo 55, Sodo Zion) .

MORPHOLOGY. — TL from 780 to 1305 mm; 15 MSR keeled; 248-256 Ven, keeled; 108-147 Sc, vertebral row enlarged with two keels; anal single; 6-8 supralabials; 8 infralabials; 1 preocular; 2 postoculars; temporal scale formula 1 + 2 + 3.

DISTRIBUTION. — This species is found mainly in forested regions or in savannahs associated with forested areas. It is present in ER IV and V but may occur in ER III.Previously the species had been recorded from Togo by Matschie (1893), Sternfeld (1908b; from Missahohe), Werner (1929), Loveridge (1939), and Hulselmans et al. (1970).