Mehelya stenophthalmus (Mocquard, 1887)

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 stenophthalmus (Mocquard, 1887)
status

 

Mehelya stenophthalmus (Mocquard, 1887) View in CoL

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 2 specimens ( MRAC 73 View Materials 14 R 31, Agou; GHS-W 1279 , Diguingue) .

MORPHOLOGY. — TL from 620 to 690 mm; 15 MSR keeled, vertebral row enlarged with two keels; 213-216 Ven, keeled; 54 Sc, paired; anal single; 7 supralabials; 7-8 infralabials; 1 preocular; 2 postoculars; temporal scale formula 1 + 2 + 3.

DISTRIBUTION. — This species is mostly a forest-dweller which occurs only in ER IV. Previously,it had been recorded from Togo by Sternfeld (1908b; from Missahohe), Werner (1929) and Loveridge (1939).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Squamata

Family

Lamprophiidae

Genus

Mehelya

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