Distribution |
Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Burkina Faso,
Ghana, Benin, Togo, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Gambia (HÅKANSSON
1981), Ivory Coast (RÖDEL et al. 1999), Cameroon, S Mauritania, Guinea,
Burkina Faso, Togo, S Niger, Sierra Leone ****
Trape & Mané on the snakes of Niger (2015):
Psammophis elegans univittatus Perret, 1961
Material: 32 specimens, including four univittatus.
Localities: Baboul (3 + 1 univittatus), Cissia (3), Goudoumaria (6),
Kellé (1), Kusa (1), Piliki (6 + 3 univittatus), Téla (8).
Literature records: SW Niger (Roman 1974); Gaya, La Tapoa (Chirio 2009).
Remarks: The satus of univittatus initially described from
northern Cameroon is unclear. Hughes (circa 1998, unpublished document)
reports specimens from Mali, Niger (La Tapoa, Garin, Maradi, Soku),
Nigeria, Cameroon, and Central African Republic). This taxon is
characterized by a single vertebral brown line, and lacking those
usually present on the flanks in elegans. It appears sympatric with
elegans in Niger and is also distributed in Burkina Faso where five
specimens from Bam area (13°20’N, 01°30’W) of Roman’s collection are
attributable to univittatus (J.-F. Trape, unpublished). Molecular
studies are needed to clarify whether univittatus deserves
taxonomic recognition or is simply intraspecific variation.
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