Causus maculatus (Hallowell, 1842)

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 : 156

Causus maculatus (Hallowell, 1842)

In 2017 an adult individual was photographed by R. Pacta in Moanda, Lébombi-Léyou Dept. ( Fig. 32 ). New Dept. record (the species was not recorded from the Dept. by Pauwels and Vande weghe 2008; Pauwels et al. 2017b, 2018c). In his unpublished Masters’ thesis on Causus, de Massary (1993) listed two specimens (MNHN 1886.233–234) from ‘‘Franceville, Gabon’’, and three more (MNHN 1980.1100–1102) from ‘‘Mounana, 80 km de Francev. [= Franceville], Gabon,’’ thus in Lébombi-Léyou Dept. This savanna-dwelling viper seems relatively localized in Gabon.

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Fig. 32. Adult Causus maculatus in Moanda, Haut-Ogooué Prov., southeastern Gabon. Photograph by R. Pacta.