Atractaspis dahomeyensis Bocage, 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 : 340

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2011n3a4
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4547134
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scientific name	Atractaspis dahomeyensis Bocage, 1887
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MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 10 specimens ( GHS-W 1082 , GHS-W 1272-73 , Sodo Zion ; GHS-Togo 87, Agote ; MNHN 1982.0452 View Materials , Togo, no precise locality; MRAC 29742 View Materials , Atakpame ; MRAC 73014.0059 View Materials , Notse, T 213 , T 216-217 , Huilehui) .

MORPHOLOGY. — TL from 392 to 600 mm; 29-31 MSR, smooth; 221-236 Ven, smooth; 23-28 Sc, single anteriorly but paired near the tip of the tail; anal single; 5 supralabials; 5-7 infralabials; 1 preocular; 1 postocular; temporal scale formula 1 (very large) + 2.

DISTRIBUTION. — All specimens were obtained from localities in the forested area of the country. This species might be present in ER II, III and V. Previously, it had been mentioned from Togo by Sternfeld (1908b, 1909), Hulselmans & Verheyen (1970), Hulselmans et al. (1970), Roman (1984), Spawls & Branch (1995) and David & Ineich (1999).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Reptilia
Order	Squamata
Family	Lamprophiidae
Genus	Atractaspis

Atractaspis dahomeyensis Bocage, 1887

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