Boaedon angolensis Bocage 1895

Boaedon angolensis Bocage, 1895 Material (one specimen): One adult specimen (MHNCUP/REP 165, formerly UP-MHNFCP-017401; Fig. S61), collected from Bahia dos Tigres [= Baía dos Tigres] (in error) [-16.58559º, 11.82709º, 98 m a.s.l.] Namibe Province, by Francisco Newton in 1905. Comments: Boaedon angolensis is a species endemic to Angola that occurs in the highlands of Cuando Cubango, Uíge, Malanje, Huambo, Kwanza Norte and Huíla provinces (potentially Benguela and Cunene as well) (Marques et al. 2018; Hallermann et al. 2020). It was recently revised by Hallermann et al. (2020) as part of a larger study on the Boaedon genus in Angola. The authors revalidated the taxon as a full species and designated a neotype, given that the original type specimens used to describe Boaedon lineatus var. angolensis Bocage, 1895 had been lost in 1978 MBL fire. The presented specimen was not cited by Ferreira (1904, 1906), but the naturalist identified it as “ Boodon lineatus ”.
Published as part of Santos, Bruna S., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2021, Herpetological results of Francisco Newton's Zoological Expedition to Angola (1903 – 1906): a taxonomic revision and new records of a forgotten collection, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5028 (1) on pages 30-31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5028.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5453967
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