Gongylophis muelleri
Gongylophis muelleri, known commonly as Müller's sand boa or the Saharan sand boa, is a species of snake in the family Boidae.[2][3] The species is endemic to Africa.
| Gongylophis muelleri | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Boidae |
| Genus: | Gongylophis |
| Species: | G. muelleri |
| Binomial name | |
| Gongylophis muelleri Boulenger, 1892 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Etymology
The specific name, muelleri, is in honor of Swiss herpetologist Fritz Müller.[4]
Geographic range
G. muelleri is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, and Togo.[1]
Subspecies
Two subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.[1]
- Gongylophis muelleri muelleri Boulenger, 1892
- Gongylophis muelleri subniger (Angel, 1938)
Nota bene: The trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Gongylophis.
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References
- Species Eryx muelleri at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
- "Gongylophis ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved August 16, 2010.
- McDiarmid, Roy W., Jonathan A. Campbell, and T'Shaka A. Touré (1999). Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, Volume 1. Washington, District of Columbia: Herpetologists' League. 511 pp.
- Beolens, Bo, Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Gongylophis muelleri, p. 184).
Further reading
- Angel F (1938). "Liste des reptiles du Mauritanie recueillis par la mission d'études de la biologie des Acridiens en 1936 et 1937. Description d'une sous-espèce nouvelle d' Eryx muelleri". Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle de Paris, Series 2, 10: 485–487. (Eryx muelleri subniger, new subspecies). (in French).
- Boulenger GA (1892). "Description of a new Snake from Nubia". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Sixth Series 9: 74–76. (Gongylophis muelleri, new species).
- Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families ... Boidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (Eryx muelleri, new combination, p. 128 + Plate V, figure 2).
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