Atractaspis branchi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Elapoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Elapoidea

Familia: Lamprophiidae
Subfamilia: Atractaspidinae
Genus: Atractaspis
Species: Atractaspis branchi

Name

Atractaspis branchi Rödel, Kucharzewski, Mahlow, Chirio, [[List of taxa authored by Olivier Sylvain Gérard Pauwels |Pauwels]], Carlino, Sambolah & Glos 2019: 108

Holotype: ZMB 88529 (field number RG97), subadult ♀, collected by M.-O. Rödel, G. Sambolah & J. Glos on 6 April 2018.

Type locality: “Liberia, Lofa region, Foya Forest, 08°01'16.2"N, 010°25'31.4"W, 317 m a.s.l., near a small rocky creek in primary lowland rainforest”.

References

Primary references

Rödel, M-O., Kucharzewski, C., Mahlow, K., Chirio, L., Pauwels, O., Carlino, P., Sambolah, G. & Glos, J. 2019. A new stiletto snake (Lamprophiidae, Atractaspidinae, Atractaspis) from Liberia and Guinea, West Africa. Zoosystematics and Evolution 95: 107–123. DOI: 10.3897/zse.95.31488 Reference page.

Vernacular names

English: Branch’s Stiletto Snake

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