Diamondback Night Stalker
Toxicodryas adamanteus Greenbaum, Allen, Vaughan, Pauwels, Wallach, Kusamba, Muninga, Aris-Tote, Mali, Badjedjea, Penner, Rödel, Rivera, Sterkhova, Johnson, Tapondjou & Brown, 2021
First described in: Greenbaum, Eli, Kaitlin E. Allen, Eugene R. Vaughan, Olivier S. G. Pauwels, Van Wallach, Chifundera Kusamba, Wandege M. Muninga, Mwenebatu M. Aristote, Franck M. M. Mali, Gabriel Badjedjea, Johannes Penner, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Jacqueline Rivera, Viktoria Sterkhova, Grant Johnson, Walter P. Tapandjou N & Rafe M. Brown. 2021. Night stalkers from above: A monograph of Toxicodryas tree snakes (Squamata: Colubridae) with a description of two new cryptic species from Central Africa. Zootaxa 4965(1): 1–44.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
discussion
Comments. A recently described species splitted from T. pulverulenta (Fisher, 1856) where it was formerly included (Greenbaum et al. 2021). There are no precise records of this species for Bioko (Mertens 1964 a).
Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea
distribution
Distribution. It extends from the East of the Niger Delta to Kenya, southward to northern Angola (Greenbaum et al. 2021). In Equatorial Guinea it has been recorded both from Bioko (Boulenger 1896; Bocage 1903) and Río Muni, at Cabo San Juan (Boulenger 1905) and Monte Alén National Park (Lasso et al. 2002) (Map 24 A).
Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea
materials_examined
Specimens examined. Fifteen specimens. Equatorial Guinea, without specific locality, but likely part of the material examined by Boulenger (1905) from Cabo San Juan (MNCN 23813). Río Muni: Miboman (30 km from Niefang), 01 February 1987 [EBD 25023 (includes 6 specimens)]; Miboman (road to Niefang), 7 – 8 July 1986 (EBD 20824 – 20825), 6 September 1986 (EBD 20823); Miboman (road of Bata-Movo-Niefang), August 1987 (EBD 27530); Miboman, December 1987 (EBD 27738); Bata, December 1987 (EBD 27746); Bata (road of Movo-Miboman-Niefang), September 1987 (EBD 27518); San Joaquín de Ndyiacom (road from Bata to Ayamiken), 03 February 1987 (EBD 24978).
Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea
materials_examined
Type locality: “ Npenda village, NE of Lake Tumba (00.7465 ° S, 18.2243 ° E, 311 m), Equateur Province, DRC ”.
Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 11122571.