Meizodon regularis

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

Meizodon regularis Fischer, 1856: 112

Holotype: ZMUH 2638 (formerly no. 77), ♂, collected by L. Wolf bewteen November 1847–January 1851.
Type locality: “Peki”, Ghana, near frontier to Togo.

Fischer, J.G. 1856. Neue Schlangen des Hamburgischen Naturhistorischen Museums. Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften 3: 79–116. BHL Reference page.

Broadley, D.G. 1998. The reptilian fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa). In: Schmidt, K.P. & Noble, G.K. Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo. [reprint of the 1919 and 1923 papers]. SSAR Facsimile reprints in Herpetology, 780 pp.
Chirio, L. & Ineich, I. 2006. Biogeography of the reptiles of the Central African Republic. African Journal of Herpetology 55(1): 23–59.

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Meizodon regularis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 13 January 2023.
Luiselli, L., Chirio, L., Wagner, P., Safari, I. & Chenga, J. 2021. IUCN: Meizodon regularis (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e.T13265441A13265446. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-2.RLTS.T13265441A13265446.en. Accessed on 13 January 2023.

English: Eastern Crowned Smooth Snake