CJO - Abstract - On the African leopard whip snake, <em>Psammophis leopardinus</em> Bocage, 1887 (Serpentes, Colubridae), with the description of a new species from Zambia

Bulletin of The Natural History Museum. Zoology Series (2002), 68 : 75-81 Cambridge University Press

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doi:10.1017/S0968047002000080

Published online by Cambridge University Press 09 Dec 2002

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Bulletin of the Natural History Museum: Zoology (2002), 68:2:75-81 Cambridge University Press
Copyright © Natural History Museum, 2002
doi:10.1017/S0968047002000080

On the African leopard whip snake, Psammophis leopardinus Bocage, 1887 (Serpentes, Colubridae), with the description of a new species from Zambia

BARRY HUGHES ^a1 and E. WADE ^a2
^a1 57 Snaresbrook Road, London E11 1PQ, England.
^a2 Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Hertfordshire, EN4 8HT, England.

Abstract

An examination of scalation and dentition of specimens in Brussels (IRSN), Tervuren (MRAC) – mostly Bredo collection, and London (BMNH) from Angola, Congo-Kinshasa and Zambia suggests the existence of a species which is neither P. sibilans leopardinus of which the type is from Namibia, nor P. ‘sibilans’ [mossambicus] of Congo-Kinshasa and Zambia, but a new species previously unnamed.