Buhoma

Buhoma is a genus of snakes in the superfamily Elapoidea. The genus is endemic to Africa.[2]

Buhoma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Superfamily: Elapoidea
Genus: Buhoma
Ziegler, Vences, Glaw, & Böhme, 1997[1]

It was formerly classified in the family Lamprophiidae, but following the split of that family, the taxonomic placement of Buhoma remains uncertain.[3]

Species

Three species are recognized as being valid.[2]

  • Buhoma depressiceps (F. Werner, 1897)[4][5] – pale-headed forest snake
  • Buhoma procterae (Loveridge, 1922)[6] – Uluguru forest snake
  • Buhoma vauerocegae (Tornier, 1902)[7] – Usambara forest snake

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Buhoma.

References
  1. Ziegler, Thomas [in French]; Vences, Miguel; Glaw, Frank; Bohme, Wolfgang [in German] (1997). "Genital morphology and systematics of Geodipsas Boulenger, 1896 (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae), with description of a new genus". Revue suisse de Zoologie. 104: 95–114. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.79992. ISSN 0035-418X. (Buhoma, new genus, p. 108)).
  2. Genus Buhoma at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  3. "Search results | The Reptile Database". reptile-database.reptarium.cz. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  4. Werner, Franz (1897). "Ueber Reptilien und Batrachier aus Togoland, Kamerun und Tunis aus dem kgl. Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin ". Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlich zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 47: 395–407. (Tropidonotus depressiceps, new species, p. 402). (in German).
  5. Werner, Franz (1899). "Ueber Reptilien und Batrachier aus Togoland, Kamerun und Deutsch-Neu-Guinea grösstentheils aus dem k. Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 49: 132–157. (in German).
  6. Loveridge, Arthur (1922). "New reptiles from Tanganyika Territory". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1922: 313–315. (Geodipsas procterae, new species, p. 313).
  7. Tornier, Gustav (1902). "Herpetologisch Neues aus Ost-Afrika". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 25: 700–704. (Geodipsas vauerocegae, new species, p. 703). (in German).



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