Dipsadoboa flavida
Taxonavigation
editTaxonavigation: Colubroidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Dipsadoboa
Species: Dipsadoboa flavida
Subspecies (2): D. f. broadleyi – D. f. flavida
Name
editHolotype: NMZB-UM 23124, ♂, collected by R.A. Stevens on January 1969.
Type locality: “a reedbed on Chisambo Tea Estate, Mlanje, southern Malawi, at c. 650 metres above sea-level”.
Combinations
edit- Chamaetortus aulicus flavidus Broadley & Stevens, 1971: 5 [original combination, as subspecies]
- Dipsadoboa flavida - Rasmussen, 1989 [subsequent combination, elevate to species]
References
editPrimary references
edit- Broadley, D.G. & Stevens, R.A. 1971. A review of Chamaetortus aulicus Günther, with the description of a new subspecies from Malawi (Serpentes: Colubridae). Arnoldia (Rhodesia) 5(11): 1–11. Reference page.
- Rasmussen, J.B. 1989. On the taxonomic status of Dipsadoboa aulica aulica Günther and D. aulica flavida Broadley & Stevens, with tthe description of a new subspecies of D. flavida Broadley & Stevens (Boiginae, Serpentes). Amphibia-Reptilia 10: 35–62.
Additional references
edit- Broadley, D. G. & Howell, K. M. 1991. A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70.
Links
edit- Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Dipsadoboa flavida. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 25 October 2018.