Toxicodryas blandingii

Toxicodryas blandingii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Colubridae
Genus:Toxicodryas
Species: T. blandingii
Binomial name
Toxicodryas blandingii
(Hallowell, 1844)
Synonyms[1]
  • Dipsas blandingii
    Hallowell, 1844
  • Toxicodryas blandingii
    — Hallowell, 1857
  • Dipsadomorphus blandingii
    — F. Werner, 1899
  • Boiga blandingii
    — Schmidt, 1923
  • Toxicodryas blandingii
    — Wallach et al., 2014

Toxicodryas blandingii, commonly known as Blanding's cat snake or Blanding's tree snake, is a species of rear-fanged venomous snake of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, blandingii, is in honor of William Blanding (1772–1857), an American physician and naturalist.[2]

Geographic range

T. blandingii is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Species Toxicodryas blandingii at The Reptile Database
  2. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Boiga blandingii, p. 27).

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Dipsadomorphus blandingii, pp. 77–78).
  • Hallowell E (1844). "Descriptions of New Species of African Reptiles". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 2: 169-172. (Dipsas blandingii, new species, pp. 170–171).


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