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GBIF·12196525speciesAnimalia12 occurrence records
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  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusPhilothamnus
Philothamnus mayombensis
Marius Burger (CC0) · Wikimedia Commons. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.
IUCN NE · Not evaluated

Mayombe Bush Snake

Philothamnus mayombensis Trape, Collet, Hughes & Mediannikov, 2022

Also calledMayombe-busksnog (dan)

First described in: Trape, Jean-François, Barry Hughes, Marcel Collet & Oleg Mediannikov. 2022. Une étude des serpents du groupe Philothamnus heterodermus (Hallowell, 1857) avec la description de deux espèces nouvelles et un arbre phylogénétique du genre Philothamnus Smith, 1847 (Squamata : Colubridae : Colubrinae). Bulletin de la Société Herpétologique de France 179: 27-42.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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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

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Every page naming Philothamnus mayombensis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 12196525.