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Smith's African Water Snake
Grayia smithii (Leach, 1818)
Also calledSmiths Wassernatter (deu) · Ækvatorial Vandsnog (dan)
First described in: Leach, W. E. in Tuckey, Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816.
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discussion
Comments. Notes regarding the type specimen / s and versions of the specific epithet are provided by Wallach et al. (2014) and Marques et al. (2018). A freshwater species recorded in the streams of Monte Alén National Park in Río Muni (Lasso et al. 2002). Specimens examined. Two specimens. Río Muni: Miboman, (Km 27, road from Movo to Bata) 15 November 1986 (EBD 20926); San Joaquín de Ndyiacom (EBD 31510).
Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea
distribution
Distribution. Broadly distributed across sub-saharan Africa, from Senegal at the West to Kenya and Tanzania at the East, extending southward to Angola. In Equatorial Guinea it has been recorded in Río Muni at Monte Alén National Park (Lasso et al. 2002) (Map 25 B).
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 5224017.