Combinations

• Elaposchema vaillanti Mocquard, 1888: 123 [original combination]
• Calamelaps vaillanti — Boettger, 1893: 117 [subsequent combination]
• Micrelaps vaillanti — Boulenger, 1896: 249 [subsequent combination]

Synonyms

• Micrelaps boettgeri Boulenger 1896: 13 [synonymized by Rasmussen (2002: 74)]

Holotype: MSNG 29058, ♀.

Type locality: “Dolo”, southern Somalia.

• Rhinocalamus meleagris Sternfeld, 1908: 244 [synonymized with M. bicoloratus by Loveridge (1936) and with M. boettgeri by De Witte & Laurent (1947)]

Holotype: ZMB 20726, ♀.

Type locality: “Insel Lamu (Britisch-Ostafrika)” by Sternfeld (1910).

• Micrelaps nigriceps Sternfeld, 1910: 69 [synonymized with M. boettgeri by Boulenger (1915)]

Holotype: ZMB 27425, ♀.

Type locality: Abd el Kadr (südlich von Harar), Abessynien”.

Primary references

• Mocquard, F. 1888. Sur une collection de reptiles et batraciens rapportés des pays Comalis et de Zanzibar par M.G. Révoil. Publiés par la Société philomathique à l'occasion du centenaire de sa fondation 1788-1888: 109–134.
• Boulenger, G.A. 1896. A list of the reptiles and batrachians collected by the late Prince Eugenio Ruspoli in Somaliland and Gallaland in 1893. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 37: 5–14. BHL

• Sternfeld, R. 1908. Zur Schlangenfauna Ostafrikas. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 4(1): 237–247. BHL Reference page. 
• Sternfeld, R. 1910. Neue Schlangen aus Kamerun, Abessynien und Deutsch-Ostafrika. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 5: 67–70. BHL

Additional references

• Rasmussen, J.B. 2002. A review of the African members of the genus Micrelaps Boettger 1880 (Serpentes Atractaspididae). Tropical Zoology 15(1): 71–87. DOI: 10.1080/03946975.2002.10531166 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2022. Micrelaps vaillanti. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 19 April 2018.