Namibiana rostrata (Bocage, 1886)

Conradie, Werner, Baptista, Ninda L., Verburgt, Luke, Keates, Chad, Harvey, James, Júlio, Timóteo & Neef, Götz, 2021, Contributions to the herpetofauna of the Angolan Okavango-Cuando-Zambezi river drainages. Part 1: Serpentes (snakes), Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 292) 15 (2), pp. 244-278 : 252

Namibiana rostrata (Bocage, 1886)

Angolan Beaked Thread Snake ( Fig. 4 , Map 2) Material: PEM R23261, Cuchi Gorge, Cuando Cubango Province, -14.59000° 16.90758°, 1,350 m asl. Description: Midbody scale rows 15; 245 middorsal scales; 20 subcaudals, 12 scales around tail; supraoculars present; rostral fused with prefrontal; beak hooked; anterior supralabial present; cloacal scale heart-shaped. Size: 132 + 9 mm. Habitat and natural history notes: A single specimen was collected from the Cuchi River, a tributary of the Cubango River, under a rock in Miombo woodland. Comment: This is an Angolan endemic, restricted to southern Angola ( Branch 2018). The new record represents the eastern-most locality for this species and the first record for the larger Okavango Delta system. This species was recently recorded from Bicuar National Park and surroundings ( Baptista et al. 2019a; Butler et al. 2019).

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Fig. 4. Namibiana rostrata from Cuchi River Gorge. Photo by Werner Conradie.