Psammophis cf. phillipsii (Hallowell, 1844)

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 : 154

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13236757

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scientific name

Psammophis cf. phillipsii (Hallowell, 1844)
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On 5 July 2017 JLA found a dead-on-road adult individual on the road to Amissa Hospital, at six km from the center of Franceville, Passa Dept. Its total length was about 105 cm (including the incomplete tail). A second individual was found dead-on-road in the same locality on 13 July 2017 ( Fig. 27 View Fig ); its total length was about 110 cm. Both showed a round pupil, two internasals, two prefrontals, eight supralabials of which the 4 th and 5 th in contact with orbit, one large preocular, two postoculars, an elongate loreal, two anterior temporals, 17 smooth and oblique dorsal scale rows at midbody (vertebral row not widened), divided anal and subcaudals, and an olive brown dorsum with a black spot in the posterior part of each ventral; the dorsal surface of the head is olive brown with irregular black spots. On 11 August 2017 SM found a dead-on-road individual in Moanda, Lébombi-Léyou Dept. It showed the same head scalation features as the two specimens above, and the same coloration. New Prov. record (not recorded from the Prov. by Pauwels and Vande weghe 2008; Pauwels et al. 2016b, 2017a).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Squamata

Family

Psammophiidae

Genus

Psammophis

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