Naja nigricollis Reinhardt, 1843

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

Naja nigricollis Reinhardt, 1843 (one specimen)

Material: CamHerp 1500C ( Jakiri village along the road from Bamenda to Nkambe, 6.055°N and 10.658°E, elev. 1,550 m, coll. CamHerp M. LeBreton, July 8, 2002) .

This spitting cobra species seems not to exceed 1,000 m elevation in East Africa where another related species, Naja ashei Wüster and Broadley, 2007 , can occur above 1,750 m ( Largen and Spawls 2010). Naja nigricollis is found between 20 and 1,800 m elevation in Cameroon.

Lamprophiidae Fitzinger, 1843

The validity of this family was recently demonstrated by Kelly et al. (2011). This work showed that the genus Lamprophis was polyphyletic. A new genus was created and other species previously included in the genus Lamprophis were divided into three groups: (1) virgatus and fuliginosus , together with lineatus and olivaceus were transferred to the revalidated genus Boaedon A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron, and A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 ; (2) Lycodonomorphus was nestled within Lamprophis sensu lato and a sister taxon of Lamprophis inornatus –the latter species was therefore transferred to the genus Lycodonomorphus ; (3) Lamprophis sensu stricto was restricted to a small clade of four species endemic to South Africa, with Lamprophis aurora as type species. We follow this revised taxonomy here.