Atheris mabuensis Branch & Bayliss, 2009

Conradie, Werner, Branch, William R. & Watson, Gillian, 2019, Type specimens in the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, including the historically important Albany Museum collection. Part 2: Reptiles (Squamata), Zootaxa 4576 (1), pp. 1-45 : 31-32

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4576.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5932233

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scientific name

Atheris mabuensis Branch & Bayliss, 2009
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Atheris mabuensis Branch & Bayliss, 2009

Zootaxa, 2113:44; Figs. 2–7 View FIGURE 2 View FIGURE 3 View FIGURE 4 View FIGURE 5 View FIGURE 6 View FIGURE 7 .

Holotype: PEM R17901; main forest camp, Mount Mabu (16°17’12”S, 36°24’14”E; 1000 m a.s.l.), Mozambique; local hunter, 20 October 2008. GoogleMaps

Paratypes (3): a) PEM R17902; same locality as holotype; T. Timberlake, 20 October 2008 GoogleMaps . b) PEM R17903; same locality as holotype; J. Bayliss, 20 October 2008 GoogleMaps . c) PEM R17904; Khara Forest (lower end on Manho Forest) (15°24’39.9”S, 37°02’16.5”E; 1550 m a.s.l.), Mount Namuli, Zambezia Province, Mozambique; C. Congdon, 20 November 2008 GoogleMaps .

Remarks. All specimens with a mid-ventral incision. One paratype (PEM R1902) is badly preserved with four ventral incisions. Menegon et al. (2014) provided genetic sequences for this species (see Table 2).

PEM

Port Elizabeth Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Viperidae

Genus

Atheris

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