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Posted by Ferdelance_1 on August 23, 2002 at 20:53:06:

In Reply to: Re: Can someone point me to a taxonomist site about the.. posted by Ferdelance_1 on August 23, 2002 at 20:44:20:

:Here's a link.

:Also perform a search by the taxon provided within the link.

:Derek K.

Species:
Calabaria reinhardtii

Synonyms:
Eryx reinhardtii SCHLEGEL 1848
Calabaria fusca GRAY 1858: 155
Calabaria fusca GRAY 1858: 301
Rhoptrura reinhardti - PETERS 1858
Rhoptrura petiti SAUVAGE 1884: 202
Calabaria reinhardti - BOULENGER 1893: 92
Calabaria reinhardtii - BARBOZA DU BOCAGE 1903
Calabaria reinhardtii - SCHMIDT 1923: 57
Charina reinhardtii - KLUGE 1993
Charina reinhardtii - MCDIARMID, CAMPBELL & TOURÉ 1999: 203
Calabaria reinhardti - GOSSMANN et al. 2002

Subspecies:
Family:
Boidae, Henophidia, Serpentes (snakes)

Distribution:
Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, W/C/E, N? Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Congo, Gabon (BOULENGER 1900)

Terra typica: “Goldküste"

Comment:
Synonymy (partly) after A. Schmitz (pers. comm.).

photo: http://www.biol.lu.se/zooekologi/jon/herpbild/herpbild.htm
photo: http://www.kingsnake.com/sandboa/sandboa.html

References:
Kluge (1993) ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY 107 (4): 293-351
Schlegel (1848) Bijdr. Dierk., 1: 2.
Gray (1858) Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1858: 154-167
Peters etc. (1858) Monatsber. königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin. 1858 (Juni): 340-341.
Sauvage (1884) Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1884: 202, 205
Bocage (1903) J. Sci. math. phys. nat. Lisboa, 7 (2): 13.
Schmidt (1923) Bull. Amer. Mus. nat. Hist., New York, 49 (1): 1-146
Rödel etc. (2000) Salamandra 36 (1): 25-38
Boulenger (1893) Catalogue of the snakes,Vol. I.
McDiarmid etc. (1999) Snake species of the world, v.1.
Trape etc. (1995) J. Afr. Zool. 109 (1): 31-50
Gray (1858) Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) 2: 300-301
Luiselli etc. (1998 (1999)) Herpetological Natural History 6 (1): 65-71
Hortenbach etc. (1998) Salamandra 34 (2): 157-166
Gossmann etc. (2002) Herpetofauna 24 (136): 19-33
Boulenger (1900) Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1900: 433-456

Source: EMBL Database



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