Thelotornis mossambicanus (Bocage, 1895)

Conradie, Werner, Bittencourt-Silva, Gabriela B., Engelbrecht, Hanlie M., Loader, Simon P., Menegon, Michele, Nanvonamuquitxo, Cristovao, Scott, Michael & Tolley, Krystal A., 2016, Exploration into the hidden world of Mozambique's sky island forests: new discoveries of reptiles and amphibians, Zoosystematics and Evolution 92 (2), pp. 163-180 : 172

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.92.9948

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9DA068DA-B881-4091-99FE-252D31DDC7D1

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A23CFF5A-C8D6-E26D-5963-C8DF036A72A5

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Zoosystematics and Evolution by Pensoft

scientific name

Thelotornis mossambicanus (Bocage, 1895)
status

 

Thelotornis mossambicanus (Bocage, 1895)

Material

Mt. Mabu ( PEM R21142 View Materials , juvenile, 312 SVL+ 163 mm TL; PEM R21149 View Materials , male, 650 mm SVL + 400 mm TL), M’pàluwé ( PEM R21228 View Materials , female, 706 mm SVL + 419 mm TL) .

Comments

At Mt. Mabu one specimen was collected from closed-canopy forest while the other was collected in transitional miombo woodland. A male and female specimen donated by a local presumably obtained from near Ribáuè town. The juvenile collected from closed-canopy forest had a juvenile Rhampholeon maspictus in its stomach.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Colubridae

Genus

Thelotornis