Bitis (Macrocerastes) gabonica Duméril, Duméril & Bibron 1854

Santos, Bruna S., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2021, Herpetological results of Francisco Newton’s Zoological Expedition to Angola (1903 – 1906): a taxonomic revision and new records of a forgotten collection, Zootaxa 5028 (1), pp. 1-80 : 29

Bitis (Macrocerastes) gabonica Duméril, Duméril & Bibron 1854

Material (one specimen): One juvenile specimen (MHNCUP/REP 346, formerly UP-MHNFCP-017430; Fig. S56 ), collected from unknown locality, date unknown.

Comments: Bitis gabonica is a large-bodied forest adder ( Barlow et al. 2019), known mainly from the forests and savannas of West, Central and East Africa and with a distribution ranging from Benin to northern Angola and northeastern KwaZulu-Natal (see Marques et al. 2018 for more detail). It is one of five currently recognized species in the subgenus Macrocerastes ( Ceríaco et al. 2020c) . From the regions in which Newton collected, this species is known from N’dalatando, Kwanza Norte Province ( Marques et al. 2018). Ferreira (1904, 1906) did not publish on the aforementioned specimen.

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FIGURE S56. Specimen of Bitis (Macrocerastes) gabonica (MHNCUP/REP 346), from unknown locality. Photo by Bruna Santos.