Dasypeltis gansi Trape & Mané, 2006

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 : 333

Dasypeltis gansi Trape & Mané, 2006

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 7 specimens ( MNHN 1982.453 , Lomé; GHS-W 0264-0265 , Nangbeto; GHS-W 1091, Sodo Zion, T 172 et T 179 , Alédjo; T 158 , Fazao) .

MORPHOLOGY. — TL of our specimens from 290 to 670 mm; 21-23 MSR, keeled and oblique; 210-241 Ven, smooth; 68-81 Sc, paired; anal single; 7 supralabials; 7-8 infralabials; 1 preocular; 2 postoculars; temporal scale formula 2 + 2 + 3.

DISTRIBUTION. — This species is present throughout the country.

CONSERVATION STATUS. — According to the reports of the DFC, 121 living specimens of this species were exported from 2001 to 2005.

REMARK

The recent revision of Trape & Mané (2006a) clarified the taxonomy of the genus Dasypeltis Wagler, 1830 . However, many specimens from Togo and West Africa have for long be identified as Dasypeltis scabra . Werner (1898, 1902), Sternfeld (1908b, 1909: 17), Hulselmans & Verheyen (1970) and Anonymous (2002) mentioned the occurrence of D. scabra in Togo. All those specimens cited by these authors should probably now be referred either to D. confusa or to D. gansi .