Toxicodryas adamanteus GREENBAUM, ALLEN, VAUGHAN, PAUWELS, WALLACH, KUSAMBA, MUNINGA, ARIS-TOTE, MALI, BADJEDJEA, PENNER, RÖDEL, RIVERA, STERKHOVA, JOHNSON, TAPONDJOU & BROWN, 2021
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Toxicodryas adamanteus
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| Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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| Synonym | Toxicodryas adamanteus GREENBAUM, ALLEN, VAUGHAN, PAUWELS, WALLACH, KUSAMBA, MUNINGA, ARIS-TOTE, MALI, BADJEDJEA, PENNER, RÖDEL, RIVERA, STERKHOVA, JOHNSON, TAPONDJOU & BROWN 2021 Toxicodryas adamantea — BADJEDJEA et al. 2023 Toxicodryas adamantea — PAUWELS & COLYN 2023 |
| Distribution | Democratic Republic of Congo (Katanga [Zaire]): Equateur Province, Equatorial Guinea Type locality: Npenda village, NE of Lake Tumba (00.7465° S, 18.2243° E, 311 m), Equateur Province, DRC |
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| Types | Holotype. UTEP 22204 (field no. ELI 2213; Figs. 8, 12–13), adult male, collected by local Twa people and brought to Eli Greenbaum, Chifundera Kusamba, Wandege M. Muninga, and Mwenebatu M. Aristote on 8 July 2013. Paratopotype. UTEP 22203 (field no. ELI 2212) adult female with same collection details as the holotype. Paratype. RBINS 2699 (formerly RBINS 9127) (field no. Paul Leloup #26), adult female from Région Tsha- bondo (2.690861° S, 27.341972° E), South Kivu Province, DRC, collected by Paul Leloup on 11 October 1958. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: A species of Toxicodryas restricted to West, Central and East Africa, east of the Niger Delta, defined by the following combination of characters: maximum SVL < 1 meter (vs. maximum SVL > 1 meter in T. blandingii and T. vexator sp. nov.), DSRN 18–23 (vs. 23–25 in T. blandingii and 23–29 in T. vexator sp. nov.), DSRM 18–21 (vs. 21–25 in T. blandingii and T. vexator sp. nov.); cloacal plate undivided (vs. usually divided in T. blandingii, and divided or undivided in T. vexator sp. nov.); both sexes brown to pink with darker cross-bars that often enclose a whitish spot, and the dorsum and venter sprinkled with fine dark brown or black spots (vs. adult males glossy or velvety black with a yellow venter, and adult females light brown, gray, or yellowish-brown with light-brown or cream cross-bars on the flanks, with yellowish-brown venters in T. blandingii and T. vexator sp. nov.); hemipenis relatively long with long spines mid-way along the shaft that decrease in size towards the apex and base, with a domed apex (vs. hemipenis relatively short and massive [i.e., broad], proximal third covered with spines, distal two-thirds dimpled with a flattened apex in T. blandingii and T. vexator sp. nov.) (GREENBAUM et al. 2021). |
| Comment | For further references see Greenbaum et al. 2021 (not provided upon request). |
| Etymology | The specific epithet adamanteus is a Latin adjective referring to the diamond-shaped marks on the flanks and dorsum of this species. |
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