Boaedon olivaceus
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| Boaedon olivaceus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Lamprophiidae |
| Genus: | Boaedon |
| Species: | B. olivaceus |
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| Boaedon olivaceus | |
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Boaedon olivaceus is a species of snake in the family Lamprophiidae. The species is endemic to Africa.
Eli Greenbaum and colleagues described the taxonomy of this species as being "relatively stable for over a century".[5] Auguste Duméril described this species in 1856, making it the type species of his newly-circumscribed genus Holuropholis. Charles Eugène Aubry-Lecomte collected the holotype.[2] The junior synonym Boodon poensis was described by Albert Günther in 1888,.[3] George Albert Boulenger synonymized the two species, classifying it in the genus Boodon.[4][5] Arthur Loveridge classified it in the genus Boaedon in 1957.[6]
In 1974, M. C. Stucki-Stirn described a subspecies B. olivaceus stirnensis, but it was synonymized with the species itself in 2014.[5]
Distribution
The type locality of this species is Gabon,[2] and the type locality of its junior synonym B. poensis is Bioko.[3]
It is found in Central and West and East Africa.[5] Countries it has been recorded in include: the Democratic Republic of the Congo,[7] Central African Republic,[8] Gabon,[9] Guinea,[10] and Togo.[11]
It is found in and near rainforests.[5]
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