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The Musée zoologique de Strasbourg (MZS) holds the late 18th century collection of Jean Hermann. Among the herpetological specimens we discovered a specimen that Hermann had described as Boa latotecta in a posthumous publication edited by his son-in-law Frédéric-Louis Hammer. Morphometrics and an examination of pholidosis facilitated comparisons with its original description and with relevant species included in the genus Bungarus Daudin, 1803. We conclude that MZS Oph0612 is unequivocally the holotype by monotypy of Boa latotectaHermann, 1804 and that the binomen is a junior synonym of Bungarus caeruleus (Schneider, 1801). We also add some clarifications about the composition of the type series of the latter taxon.
Boa latotecta Hermann, 1804, un synonyme subjectif junior de Bungarus caeruleus (Schneider, 1801) (Serpentes, Elapidae) et quelques commentaires sur les types de ce dernier taxon.
Le Musée zoologique de Strasbourg (MZS) conserve la collection historique de Jean Hermann datant de la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Nous y avons localisé un spécimen qu'il avait décrit comme Boa latotecta dans une publication posthume mise en forme par son gendre Frédéric-Louis Hammer. Les données morphométriques et l'écaillure de ce spécimen ont permis de le comparer à sa description originale et avec les autres espèces du genre Bungarus Daudin, 1803 auquel il doit être rattaché. Nous concluons que le spécimen MZS Oph0612 constitue de façon non équivoque l'holotype par monotypie de Boa latotectaHermann, 1804 et que ce binôme est un synonyme junior de Bungarus caeruleus (Schneider, 1801). Nous précisons également le contenu de la série-type de ce dernier taxon.
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