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Scaphiophis raffreyi BOCOURT, 1875

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Ethiopian hook-nosed snake 
SynonymScaphiophis raffreyi BOCOURT 1875
Scaphiophis calciatti SCORTECCI 1929: 300
Scaphiophis raffreyi — BROADLEY 1994
Scaphiophis raffreyi — LARGEN & SPAWLS 2010: 531
Scaphiophis raffreyi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 663
Scaphiophis raffreyi — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 535 
DistributionE Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), Republic of South Sudan (RSS), Eritrea, Ethiopia to NE Uganda and probably NW Kenya; elevation 500-2500 m.

Type locality: Debre Tabor, Ethiopia.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MNHN-RA 4331
Holotype: MSNM (Milano) [calciatti] 
Diagnosis 
CommentSynonymy: Scaphiophis raffreyi has been considered as a synonym of P. albopunctatus, but has been raised to species status by Broadley (1994). 
EtymologyNamed after Marie Jacques Achille Raffray (b. 1844), a French traveler, civil servant, and collector. The French Ministry of Public Instruction charged him with making scientific collections during the voyage of the French navy ship Correze. Bocourt misspelled his name. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Bocourt,M.F. 1875. Sur une nouvelle espèce d’ophidien. Ann. Sci. nat. Zool. (6) 2: art. 3 - get paper here
  • Broadley, D.G. 1994. A revision of the African genus Scaphiophis PETERS (Serpentes: Colubridae). The Herpetological Journal 4: 1-10 - get paper here
  • Largen, M.J.; Spawls, S. 2010. Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 694 pp.
  • Scortecci, G. 1929. Rettili dell'Eritrea esistenti nelle Collezioni del Museo Civico de Milano. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali, e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milano 67 (3-4): 290-339 [1928] - get paper here
  • Spawls, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. 2002. A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 pp. [reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147] - get paper here
  • Spawls, Stephen; Tomáš Mazuch& Abubakr Mohammad 2023. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 pp. - get paper here
  • Spawls, Steve; Kim Howell, Harald Hinkel, Michele Menegon 2018. Field Guide to East African Reptiles. Bloomsbury, 624 pp. - get paper here
  • Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
 
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