Zamenis scalaris (Schinz, 1822)

Parrinha, Diogo, Calado, Francisco M. G., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2025, Echoes of a lost museum: Revision of the herpetological collections sent by Barbosa du Bocage from the Lisbon Museum to the British Museum of Natural History, Vertebrate Zoology 75, pp. 353-404 : 353-404

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.75.e169790
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17418410
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scientific name	Zamenis scalaris (Schinz, 1822)
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Zamenis scalaris (Schinz, 1822) View in CoL

Specimens.

Portugal: Alfeite : BMNH 1893.12.27.14 , Aldegallega [i. e., Aldeia Galega = Montijo ]: BMNH 1893.12.27.15 , Coimbra: BMNH 1893.12.27.16 .

Comments.

In preparation for his second volume of the Catalogue of Snakes ( Boulenger 1894 b), Boulenger wrote to Bocage on 6 November 1893 ( AHMB /CE/B43 ) asking for specimens of Rhinechis scalaris . Bocage presented three specimens from Portugal in the same year ( NHMA /DF/ZOO/235/1/1/1/76 ), which were cited as Coluber scalaris by Boulenger (1894 b). Notably, no specimens from Alfeite or Montijo exist today in Portuguese collections ( Santos et al. 2024).