Natriciteres variegata (Peters, 1861)

Segniagbeto, Gabriel Hoinsoude, Trape, Jean François, David, Patrick, Ohler, Annemarie, Dubois, Alain & Glitho, Isabelle Adolé, 2011, The snake fauna of Togo: systematics, distribution and biogeography, with remarks on selected taxonomic problems, Zoosystema 33 (3), pp. 325-360 : 349-350

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2011n3a4

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scientific name

Natriciteres variegata (Peters, 1861)
status

 

Natriciteres variegata (Peters, 1861)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — 24 specimens ( MRAC 29548 View Materials , MRAC 29551 View Materials , MRAC 29668 View Materials and MRAC 29679 View Materials , Missahohe; MRAC A7036.0030 View Materials , GHS-W 1053 and GHS-W 1056, T 140-141 , T 143 , Agou; GHS-W 0052, GHS-W 1406, GHS-W 1420, GHS-W 1422, GHS-W 1436, GHS-W 1438, and GHS-W 1446, Sodo Zion; GHS-Togo 37, GHS-Togo 89, T 89 , Sodo; T 126-127 , Fazao, T 155 , Diguingué; T 201 , Alédjo) .

MORPHOLOGY. — TL from 125 to 380 mm, 15 MSR, smooth; 130-139 Ven, smooth; 66-76 Sc; 8 supralabials;

9 infralabials; 1 or 2 preoculars; 2 or 3 postoculars; temporal scale formula 1 + 2 + 3.

DISTRIBUTION. — All known localities are in forested areas. It may also occur in savannahs and may be present in ER III and V. Previously it had been recorded from Togo by Matschie (1893), Sternfeld (1908b, 1909; from Missahohe and Kete-Kratchi), Loveridge (1958), Chippaux (2006) and Leaché et al. (2006).

MRAC

Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Colubridae

Genus

Natriciteres

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