ELAPIDAE

Pauwels, Olivier S. G., Morelle, Stephan, Albert, Jean-Louis, Carlino, Piero, Rahola, Nil & Trape, Jean-François, 2019, New reptile records from Lékédi Park and Haut-Ogooué Province, southeastern Gabon, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 174) 13 (1), pp. 143-161 : 152

ELAPIDAE

Dendroaspis jamesoni jamesoni (Traill, 1843) On 5 October 2016 SM examined a dead-on-road adult individual on the R.24 road between Ndjima and Moanda in Lébombi-Léyou Dept. The individual, very damaged, showed the typical wide black vertebral band on a green dorsum, and a yellow tail with each scale circled with black. On 16 June 2017 SM encountered another dead-on-road adult individual in Moanda, Lébombi-Léyou Dept. Its left side showed no loreal, three preoculars, four postoculars, eight supralabials of which the 4 th contacts the orbit, a single elongate temporal scale, and eight infralabials. New Dept. record (the species was not listed from the Dept. by Pauwels and Vande weghe 2008; Carlino and Pauwels 2015; Pauwels et al. 2017e, 2018c). Another dead-on-road adult individual was encountered by SM in Franceville, Passa Dept., on 22 June 2017; its head and tail tip were preserved (RBINS 18480); its available meristic characters are provided in Appendix 1. This mamba lives in primary and secondary forests and even ventures in plantations, but is rarely observed due to its shy and arboreal habits.