Boaedon fuliginosus (Boie, 1827)

Ineich, Ivan, LeBreton, Matthew, Lhermitte-Vallarino, Nathaly, Abstract. - The, Laurent Chirio, Oku, Mount & Highlands, Bamenda, 2015, The reptiles of the summits of Mont Oku and the Bamenda Highlands, Cameroon *, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 108) 9 (2), pp. 15-38 : 29

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13270281
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scientific name	Boaedon fuliginosus (Boie, 1827)
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Boaedon fuliginosus (Boie, 1827) View in CoL [formerly Lamprophis fuliginosus ] (two specimens)

Material: CamHerp 0992C (Baba II village, 5.857°N and 10.102°E, elev. 1,772 m, coll. CamHerp M. LeBreton, July 8, 2002) – CamHerp 1365C ( Veko village , 6.139°N and 10.578°E, elev. 2,044 m, coll. CamHerp M. LeBreton, December 14, 2002) GoogleMaps .

Boaedon fuliginosus View in CoL is a snake often encountered in and around houses. Nocturnal and terrestrial, it has a very wide African distribution, although populations in southern and eastern Africa were referred to B. capensis ( Hughes 1997) View in CoL . It occupies a variety of habitats ranging from dense evergreen and semi-deciduous degraded forests, to forest-savanna mosaics through the Adamaoua high savannas and Sudanian savannas. It occurs up to 2,044 m at Veko village in the BH and up to 2,400 m in East Africa ( Spawls et al. 2002; Largen and Spawls 2010).

References

Hughes B. 1997. Dasypeltis scabra and Lamprophis fuliginosus - two pan-African snakes in the Horn of Africa: A tribute to Don Broadley. African Journal of Herpetology 46 (2): 68 - 77.

Largen MJ, Spawls S. 2010. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and Serpent's Tale Natural History Books Distributors, USA. Volume 38: 1 - 693.

Spawls S, Howell K, Drewes R, Ashe J. 2002. A Field Guide to the Reptiles of East Africa. Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. Academic Press, San Diego, San Francisco, New York, Boston, London, Sydney, Tokyo. 543 p.