Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia

Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Crotaphopeltis
Species: Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia

Name

Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia (Laurenti, 1768)

Type locality: “India orientali” = Africa.

Holotype: None. Description based on fig. 6, plate xxxiii in Seba 1734.

Synonyms

• Coronella hotamboeia Laurenti, 1768: 58
• Leptodira rufescens Gmelin, 1789: 1094 — Günther, 1895: 525
• Coronella rufescens — Schlegel, 1837
• Heterurus rufescens — Duméril & Bibron, 1854: 1170
• Leptodira rufescens — Boettger, 1893: 119
• Leptodira hotamboeia - Peracca, 1897
• Leptodira hitamboeia — Boulenger, 1897: 279 (in error)
• Leptodeira hotamboeia — Schmidt, 1923: 107
• Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia hotamboeia — Loveridge, 1937: 276
• Tarbophis barnum-browni Bogert, 1940
• Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia ruziziensis Laurent, 1956
• Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia — Broadley, 1968
• Crotaphopeltis bicolor (Leach, 1819)
• Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia — Auerbach, 1987: 184
• Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia — Rödel & Mahsberg, 2000

References

• Laurenti, J. N. 1768. Specimen medicum, exhibens synopsin reptilium emendatam cum experimentis circa venena et antidota reptilium austracorum, quod authoritate et consensu. Vienna, Joan. Thomae, 217 pp.
• Rödel M.O. & Mahsberg D. 2000. Vorläufige Liste der Schlangen des Tai-Nationalparks / Elfenbeinküste und angrenzender Gebiete. Salamandra 36(1): 25–38. PDF Reference page. 
• Rödel, M.O., Kouadio, K. & Mahsberg, D. 1999. Die Schlangenfauna des Comoé-Nationalparks, Elfenbeinküste: Ergänzungen und Ausblick. Salamandra 35(3): 165–180. PDF Reference page. 
• Trape, J.-F. & Mane, Y. 2006. Guide des serpents d’Afrique occidentale. Savane et désert. [Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger]. IRD Editions, Paris, 226 pp.
• Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia at the New Reptile Database. Accessed on 25 August 2008.

Vernacular names

English: Herald Snake, Red-lipped Snake