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Species of snake

Polemon robustus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Atractaspididae
Genus: Polemon
Species: P. robustus
Binomial name
Polemon robustus
(de Witte & Laurent, 1943)
Synonyms
  • Miodon robustus
    de Witte & Laurent, 1943
  • Polemon robustus
    — Welch, 1994

Polemon robustus, or the Zaire snake-eater, is a species of rear-fanged mildly venomous snake in the family Atractaspididae. The species is endemic to Africa.

Geographic range

Polemon robustus is found in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

References

  1. ^ Polemon at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 5 May 2009.
  2. "Polemon ". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 5 September 2007.

Further reading

  • de Witte GF, Laurent RF (1947). "Revision d'un groupe de Colubridae africains: genres Calamelaps, Miodon, Aparallactus, et formes affines ". Mém. Mus. Roy. Hist. Nat. Belgique (sér. 2) 29: 1–134. (Miodon robustus, new species, p. 62). (in French).
Taxon identifiers
Polemon robustus


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