Lycophidion irroratum (Leach, 1819)

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 : 343

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2011n3a4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4547174

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B7FC4E-C02F-6E63-FF5C-FBAE6E03E6EC

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scientific name

Lycophidion irroratum (Leach, 1819)
status

 

Lycophidion irroratum (Leach, 1819)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 34 specimens ( MRAC 29557 View Materials , Missahohe; MRAC 29707 View Materials , Koutoukpa; MRAC 29594 View Materials , Tetetou; MRAC A7036.0023 View Materials , GHS-W 1043, GHS-W 1048, T 144-145 , Agou, GHS-W 1270, GHS-W 1453-4, GHS-W 1456, GHS-W 1458-1460, T 123 , T 124-125 , Fazao; GHS-W 1070, GHS-W 1271, GHS-W 1274, GHS-W 1407-08, GHS-W 1416-17, GHS-W 1427, GHS-W 1431, GHS-W 1435, GHS-W 1439, GHS-W 1444, Sodo Zion; GHS-W 1189, GHS-W 1258, Yo [Agome Yo]; T 195 , T 199 , Alédjo) .

MORPHOLOGY. — TL from 168 to 325 mm; 17 MSR, smooth; 159-184 Ven, smooth; 37-47 Sc; 8-9 supralabials; 9-10 infralabials; 1 preocular; 2 postoculars; temporal scale formula 1 + 2 + 3.

DISTRIBUTION. — This species is widespread in the forested area but also inhabits the Guinean savannahs of ER III. Previously it has been recorded from Togo by Matschie (1893), Werner (1898, 1902), Sternfeld (1908b, 1909: 11), Hulselmans & Verheyen (1970) and Hulselmans et al. (1970).

MRAC

Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Lamprophiidae

Genus

Lycophidion

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