Chifundera’s Green Snake
Philothamnus chifunderai Greenbaum, Pauwels, Gvoždík, Vaughan, Chaney, Buontempo, Aristote, Muninga & Engelbrecht, 2023
This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.
- Recorded from
- Democratic Republic of Congo (Katanga)
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Philothamnus chifunderai in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
References
- Greenbaum, Eli; Olivier S. G. Pauwels, Václav Gvoždík, Eugene R. Vaughan, Teslin Chaney, Michael Buontempo, Mwenebatu M. Aristote, Wandege M. Muninga & Hanlie M. Engelbrecht. (2023). Systematics of the Thirteen-scaled Green Snake Philothamnus carinatus (Squamata: Colubridae), with the description of a cryptic new species from Central and East Africa,. African Journal of Herpetology,.
- Pauwels, O. S. G., & Brecko, J. (2023). Book review: Guide des Serpents d’Afrique Occidentale, Centrale et d’Afrique du Nord. Jean-François Trape.IRD Editions, Marseille, France (www.editions.ird.fr). 896 pp. Herpetological Review 54 (4): 700-702.
From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.