Boaedon angolensis ( Bocage, 1895 )

Baptista, Ninda L., António, Telmo & Branch, William R., 2019, The herpetofauna of Bicuar National Park and surroundings, southwestern Angola: a preliminary checklist, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 203) 13 (2), pp. 96-130 : 118

Boaedon angolensis ( Bocage, 1895)

Angolan House Snake ( Fig. 29A–B )

Material: One unlabelled bleached specimen in the private collection of Carmira Farm.

Comment: This species was recently recorded from BNP ( Butler et al. 2019). The scalation of the Carmira Farm specimen (23 midbody scale rows, 116 ventrals, more than 55 subcaudals, see Fig. 29A–B for head scalation), accords with the revision of Angolan house snakes currently in progress (Hallermann et al., unpub. data).

Figures

Fig. 29. Boaedon angolensis, Carmira Farm. Head (A) lateral view and (B) dorsal view.