Hapsidophrys smaragdinus (Schlegel, 1837)

Pauwels, Olivier S. G., Morelle, Stephan, Albert, Jean-Louis, Carlino, Piero, Rahola, Nil & Trape, Jean-François, 2019, New reptile records from Lékédi Park and Haut-Ogooué Province, southeastern Gabon, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 174) 13 (1), pp. 143-161 : 150

Hapsidophrys smaragdinus (Schlegel, 1837)

On 10 April 2016 SM caught and photographed an adult individual in a garden in Bakoumba. It showed (right side) 9(5-6) supralabials, one loreal, one preocular, no subocular, two postoculars, one anterior temporal, a round pupil, keeled dorsals with a non-widened vertebral row, keeled ventrals and subcaudals, a black lateral stripe on its green head, and a green body with bluish dots on its dorsum. The snake repeatedly bit while being handled. New locality record. Within this Dept., the species was already known from the nearby Lékédi Park ( Pauwels et al. 2016b). On 6 December 2017 SM photographed a dead-on-road individual in Moanda, Lébombi-Léyou Dept. It showed the typical uniformly green body, a lateral black stripe on the head, and strongly keeled dorsal scales. New Dept. record (not listed from the Dept. by Pauwels et al. 2016b, 2017b).