Calabaria Gray, 1858

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 : 307

Genus Calabaria Gray, 1858

Calabaria reinhardtii ( Schlegel, 1851) CALABAR GROUND BOA Eryx reinhardtii Schlegel 1851:1 , pl. Holotype: ZMB 1471 (collector H. Halleur, don. J.T. Reinhardt). Type locality: “possessions danoises à la Côte d’or” ( Schlegel 1851:2), [= Ghana], restricted to “Aqua Pim” [= Akwapim], Ghana by Hughes and Barry (1969:1010) on the basis of data associated with specimen.

Calabaria Reinhardtii : Bocage (1895a:74).

Calabaria reinhardtii : Frade (1963:252).

Calabaria reinhardtii : Chirio and LeBreton (2007:364), Wallach et al. (2014:130).

Charina reinhardtii : McDiarmid et al. (1999:203).

Global conservation status (IUCN): Not Evaluated.

Global distribution: The species is known from West and Central Africa, from Guinea to Cameroon and Central African Republic, south to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ocurrences in Angola (Map 267): The species occurs in the Cabinda enclave . Cabinda: “ Cabinda ” [-5.55000, 12.18333] ( Frade

1963:252).

Taxonomic and distributional notes:

Stimson (1969) and McDiarmid et al. (1999)

considered the type untraced. Bauer et al.

(2002) demonstrated that the specimen was in

Berlin, not in Leiden as many had supposed.

Although Stimson (1969) provided the correct year of description (1851) he provided the wrong volume of the Bijdragen tot de

Dierkunde (vol. 1). Subsequent authors have cited both the wrong year (1848) and the wrong volume number (vol. 1 instead of vol. 3) ( McDiarmid et al. 1999; Wallach et al.

2014). Most recent literature does not include

“ Cabinda ” in the distribution of Calabaria MAP 267. Distribution of Calabaria reinhardtii in Angola.

reinhardtii ( McDiarmid et al. 1999; Chirio and

LeBreton 2007; Wallach et al. 2014), however, the proximity and biotic affinities of Cabinda to West and Central Africa account for its presence there.