Dromophis Schlegel, 1837

Marques, Mariana P., Ceríaco, Luis M. P., Blackburn, David C. & Bauer, Aaron M., 2018, Diversity and Distribution of the Amphibians and Terrestrial Reptiles of Angola Atlas of Historical and Bibliographic Records (1840 - 2017), Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 65, pp. 1-501 : 332

Genus Dromophis Schlegel, 1837

Dromophis lineatus ( Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854) LINED OLYMPIC SNAKE

Dryophylax lineatus Duméril, Bibron and Duméril 1854:1124 . Syntypes: MNHN 7643–7644 (collector B. d’Arnaud). Type locality: “Nil blanc” ( Duméril, Bibron and Duméril 1854:1126), [= Upper Nile, Jonglei or Central Equatoria Province, South Sudan fide Wallach et al. 2014].

Dromophis lineatus : Bogert (1940:79), Hughes (2004:74), Broadley and Cotterill (2004:49), Wallach et al. (2014:240).

Global conservation status (IUCN): Not Evaluated.

Global distribution: The species is known from Senegal east to Ethiopia, south to Angola, Zambia and northern Malawi.

Ocurrences in Angola: Recorded in the literature from “Angola” with no precise information ( Bogert (1940:79); Loveridge (1940:9); Hughes (2004:74).

Taxonomic and distributional notes: Bogert (1940) cited the species for “ Angola ” without information about the collection site. The genus Dromophis has been treated as a synonym of Psammophis by Kelly et al. (2008), but has been recognized as valid by Hughes 2004, 2013), Wallach et al. (2014) and most other modern aurthors. Likewise the history of the nomen D. lineatus has been intertwined with that of Psammophis sibilans ( Linnaeus, 1758) (see Hughes 2004 for a summary and comment).