Bamanophis Explained

Bamanophis is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae. The genus contains the sole species Bamanophis dorri, which is native to West Africa.

Etymology

The specific name, dorri, is in honor of French military officer Emile Dorr (1857–1907), who collected the holotype.^[1]

Geographic range

B. dorri is found in northern Benin, Burkina Faso, northern Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, and northern Togo.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of B. dorri is rocky areas in savanna.

Description

Dorsally, B. dorri is gray or reddish, with a series of X-shaped dark spots.^[2] Ventrally, it is yellowish white. Adults may attain a total length (including tail) of .^{[2] [3]}

Reproduction

B. dorri is oviparous.

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1893). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families ... Colubridæ Aglyphæ, part. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I–XXVIII. (Zamenis dorri, pp. 410–411.
• Lataste F (1888). "Description d'un ophidien diacrantérien nouveau (Periops dorri, n. sp.) Originaire du Haut-Sénégal ". Le Naturaliste, Deuxième Série 10: 227–228. (Periops dorri, new species). (in French).
• Schätti B, Trape J-F (2008). "Bamanophis, a new genus for the West African colubrid Periops dorri Lataste, 1888 (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubrinae)". Revue Suisse de Zoologie 115 (4): 595–615.

Notes and References

1. [species:Bo Beolens|Beolens, Bo]
2. [George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger GA]
3. [Fernand Lataste|Lataste F]