Rhamnophis aethiopissa (Günther, 1862)

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 : 336

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2011n3a4
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4547088
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B7FC4E-C036-6E7A-FF70-FB8E6BFBE15C
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scientific name	Rhamnophis aethiopissa (Günther, 1862)
status

Treatment

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 1 specimen ( MRAC 29717), Agome, near Atakpame.

MORPHOLOGY. — TL 840 mm; 17 MSR smooth and oblique, vertebral row keeled; 166 Ven, keeled; 146 Sc, paired; anal divided; 8 supralabials; 9 infralabials; 1 preocular; 2 postoculars; 1 temporal.

DISTRIBUTION. — This species is a forest-dweller. On the basis of voucher specimens, Hulselmans et al. (1970) and Leaché et al. (2006) also mentioned its occurrence in ER IV. Werner (1898), Sternfeld (1908b) and Loveridge (1944) recorded it from Adele (Bismarkburg), Kete Kratchi and Missahohe.

REMARK

This species is sometimes placed in the genus Thrasops Hallowell, 1857 . In absence of revision of this group of arboreal species, we follow Williams & Wallach (1989) and Pauwels & Vande Weghe (2008) and recognize the validity of the genus Rhamnophis Günther, 1862 . It should be noted that the specific nomen aethiopissa is not an adjective but a noun in apposition, meaning “an Aethiopian woman”.