Amblyodipsas ventrimaculata (Roux, 1907)

Baptista, Ninda L., António, Telmo & Branch, William R., 2019, The herpetofauna of Bicuar National Park and surroundings, southwestern Angola: a preliminary checklist, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 203) 13 (2), pp. 96-130 : 118

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13238919
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7E2D87A6-FF9A-FFCA-D58A-FB7E4AA8F985
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Amblyodipsas ventrimaculata (Roux, 1907)
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Amblyodipsas ventrimaculata (Roux, 1907) View in CoL

Kalahari Purple-glossed Snake

Material: NB595 (20); one individual seen in grasslands near lake from Main Camp (site T 3), not collected.

Comment: The specimen’s scalation (15 midbody scale rows, 21 subcaudals, 203 ventrals, five upperlabials, 2 nd and 3 rd entering the eye) and coloration (similar to specimen illustrated in Butler et al. [2019]) conform to A. ventrimaculata ( Branch 1998; Marais 2004). Together with Butler et al. (2019), BNP is the second record of this species for Angola, the first being from the Cuito River source ( Portillo et al. 2018; Branch et al. 2019c), and represents a northwestern extension of the known range ( Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, and Zambia).