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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2002

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

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the Natural History Museum: Zoology Series , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , 28 November 2002 , pp. 75 - 81
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© Natural History Museum, 2002

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