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Oates' Vine Snake

Thelotornis oatesi Günther, 1881

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
Angola, N Namibia, Zaire, N Botswana, N Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, S Democratic Republic of the Congo (Katanga)
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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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References

  • Derleyn, P. P. (1978). Notes sur les serpents du Burundi (2me partie). Les genres Geodipsas et Thelotornis. Revue de Zoologie Africaine 92 (1): 208-218.
  • Bogert, Charles M. (1942). Snakes secured by the Snyder East African Expedition in Kenya Colony and Tanganyika Territory. American Museum Novitates (1178): 1-5.
  • Bocage,J.V. du B. (1895). Herpétologie d’Angola et du Congo. Lisbon: Imprimerie Nationale, I-Xx, 203 Pp.
  • Mattison, & Chris. (2007). The New Encyclopedia of Snakes. Princeton University Press.
  • Harrington, Sean M; Jordyn M de Haan, Lindsey Shapiro, Sara Ruane. (2018). Habits and characteristics of arboreal snakes worldwide: arboreality constrains body size but does not affect lineage diversification. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125 (1): 61–71.
  • Broadley, D. G. (1962). On some reptile collections from the North-Western and North-Eastern Districts of Southern Rhodesia 1958-1961, with descriptions of four new lizards. Occ. Pap. Nat. Mus. South. Rhodesia 26 (B): 787-843.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.