Dipsadoboa unicolor Günther, 1858

Ineich, Ivan, LeBreton, Matthew, Lhermitte-Vallarino, Nathaly, Abstract. - The, Laurent Chirio, Oku, Mount & Highlands, Bamenda, 2015, The reptiles of the summits of Mont Oku and the Bamenda Highlands, Cameroon *, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 108) 9 (2), pp. 15-38 : 27

Dipsadoboa unicolor Günther, 1858 (two specimens)

Material: MNHN-RA 1998.0438-0439 (two specimens, Mt. Oku , Oku village, elev. 2,000 m, coll. CamHerp L. Chirio, end 1997) .

This nocturnal and semi-arboreal snake has a wide African distribution from Guinea (Conakry) to Burundi. In Cameroon, it occupies not only the altitude forest of the west of the country but also evergreen degraded forests. It occurs from around sea level up to 2,000 m at Mt. Oku and up to 2,044 m in Veko, a village in the southeast of Mt. Oku. At Mt. Nlonako, the species does not reach the higher elevations of the massif ( Herrmann et al. 2005).

This snake is still present over 1,600 m at Mt. Nimba ( Ineich 2003), but can occur elsewhere up to 3,000 m and also can withstand low temperatures while remaining active at night and hunting amphibians on which it feeds. In East Africa , it is only reported between 1,500 m and 3,000 m elevation. The conspecificity of West African populations ( Mt. Nimba , Cameroon Volcanic Dorsal) with those of the East African mountains has not been confirmed .