Spotted dagger-tooth tree snake

Spotted dagger-tooth tree snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Colubridae
Genus:Rhamnophis
Species: R. batesii
Binomial name
Rhamnophis batesii
(Boulenger, 1908)
Synonyms[1]
  • Thrasops batesii
    Boulenger, 1908
  • Rhamnophis batesii
    — Schmidt, 1923

The spotted dagger-tooth tree snake (Rhamnophis batesii ) is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, batesii, is in honor of American ornithologist George Latimer Bates.[2]

Geographic range

R. batesii is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Species Rhamnophis batesii 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. (Rhamnophis batesii, p. 19).

Further reading

  • Boulenger GA (1908). "Descriptions of Three new Snakes from Africa". Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Eighth Series 2: 93-94. (Thrasops batesii, new species, p. 93).
  • Schmidt KP (1923). "Contributions to the herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909–1915. Part II. Snakes, with field notes by Herbert Lang and James P. Chapin". Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist. 49 (1): 1-146. (Rhamnophis batesii, new combination, p. 83).


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