Psammophis subtaeniatus Peters, 1882

Marques, Mariana P., Parrinha, Diogo, Lopes-Lima, Manuel, Tiutenko, Arthur, Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2024, An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola, ZooKeys 1201, pp. 167-217 : 167-217

Psammophis subtaeniatus Peters, 1882

Fig. 10 g

Records.

Maylowe [- 13.8342, 13.2767, 803 m] ( CAS 266140); Catchi surroundings [- 13.7620, 13.2569, 1585 m] (MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001544); 2 km N of Maylowe [- 13.8280, 13.2625, 803 m] (MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001545).

Comments.

Species restricted to dry shrublands and savannas, particularly Mopane woodland, and widely distributed from southern Angola and northern Namibia eastwards through Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe to western Mozambique ( Marques et al. 2018). Specimen MUNHAC / MB 03 - 001545 was collected on sandy substrate near a rocky outcrop while active at night.

Figures

Figure 10. a Python natalensis (skin) b Bitis (Macrocerastes) gabonica c Causus nasalis d Boaedon variegatus e Hemirhagerrhis viperina f Lycophidion hellmichi g Psammophis subtaeniatus. Photographs by LMPC (a, c, f); AT (d, e, g) and DP (b).