Toxicodryas blandingii

Toxicodryas blandingii, commonly known as Blanding's cat snake or Blanding's tree snake, is a species of rear-fanged venomous snake of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa.

Toxicodryas blandingii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Toxicodryas
Species:	T. blandingii
Binomial name
Toxicodryas blandingii (Hallowell, 1844)
Synonyms[1]
Dipsas blandingii Hallowell, 1844 Toxicodryas blandingii — Hallowell, 1857 Dipsadomorphus blandingii — F. Werner, 1899 Boiga blandingii — Schmidt, 1923 Toxicodryas blandingii — Wallach et al., 2014

Etymology

The specific name, blandingii, is in honor of William Blanding (1772–1857), an American physician and naturalist.[2]

Geographic range

T. blandingii is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia.[1]

References

1. Species Toxicodryas blandingii 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. (Boiga blandingii, p. 27).

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Dipsadomorphus blandingii, pp. 77–78).
• Hallowell E (1844). "Descriptions of New Species of African Reptiles". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 2: 169–172. (Dipsas blandingii, new species, pp. 170–171).