A Cryptic New Species of Polemon (Squamata: Lamprophiidae, Aparallactinae) from the Miombo Woodlands of Central and East Africa

Frank Portillo; William R. Branch; Colin R. Tilbury; Zoltán T. Nagy; Daniel F. Hughes; Chifundera Kusamba; Wandege M. Muninga; Mwenebatu M. Aristote; Mathias Behangana; Eli Greenbaum

doi:10.1643/CH-18-098

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24 January 2019 A Cryptic New Species of Polemon (Squamata: Lamprophiidae, Aparallactinae) from the Miombo Woodlands of Central and East Africa

Frank Portillo, William R. Branch, Colin R. Tilbury, Zoltán T. Nagy, Daniel F. Hughes, Chifundera Kusamba, Wandege M. Muninga, Mwenebatu M. Aristote, Mathias Behangana, Eli Greenbaum

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Frank Portillo,¹ William R. Branch,² Colin R. Tilbury,³ Zoltán T. Nagy,⁴ Daniel F. Hughes,¹ Chifundera Kusamba,⁵ Wandege M. Muninga,⁵ Mwenebatu M. Aristote,⁶ Mathias Behangana,⁷ Eli Greenbaum¹
¹Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W. University Ave., El Paso, Texas 79968; Email: (EG) egreenbaum2@utep.edu. Send reprint requests to EG.
²Port Elizabeth Museum, P.O. Box 11347, Humewood 6013, South Africa; and Department of Zoology, P.O. Box 77000, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth 6031, South Africa. Deceased.
³Department of Botany & Zoology, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Stellenbosch 7602, South Africa.
⁴Hielscherstr 25, D-13158 Berlin, Germany.
⁵Laboratoire d'Herpétologie, Département de Biologie, Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles, Lwiro, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
⁶Institut Supérieur d'Écologie pour la Conservation de la Nature, Katana Campus, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
⁷Department of Environmental Sciences, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7298, Kampala, Uganda.

Copeia, 107(1):22-35 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1643/CH-18-098

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African snake-eaters of the genus Polemon are cryptic, fossorial snakes that mainly inhabit the forests of central, eastern, and western Africa. Molecular results from a previous study demonstrated that Polemon christyi is not monophyletic—two distinct lineages were recovered from Uganda (the type locality) and southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Genetic data indicated differences in sequence divergence and encoded amino acids between these lineages. Based on these molecular differences and diagnostic differences in morphology, we describe the lineage from southeastern DRC as a new species. Literature records indicate that it likely occurs in adjacent Tanzania and Zambia. It is the first species of Polemon to be described in over 70 years.

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Frank Portillo, William R. Branch, Colin R. Tilbury, Zoltán T. Nagy, Daniel F. Hughes, Chifundera Kusamba, Wandege M. Muninga, Mwenebatu M. Aristote, Mathias Behangana, and Eli Greenbaum "A Cryptic New Species of Polemon (Squamata: Lamprophiidae, Aparallactinae) from the Miombo Woodlands of Central and East Africa," Copeia 107(1), 22-35, (24 January 2019). https://doi.org/10.1643/CH-18-098

Received: 25 July 2018; Accepted: 2 November 2018; Published: 24 January 2019

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Frank Portillo, William R. Branch, Colin R. Tilbury, Zoltán T. Nagy, Daniel F. Hughes, Chifundera Kusamba, Wandege M. Muninga, Mwenebatu M. Aristote, Mathias Behangana, Eli Greenbaum "A Cryptic New Species of Polemon (Squamata: Lamprophiidae, Aparallactinae) from the Miombo Woodlands of Central and East Africa," Copeia, 107(1), 22-35, (24 January 2019)

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