Update your content

Taxonomic Swap 107616 (Committed on 12-04-2022)

Reptile Database: 21 December 2019 (Citation)
| Committed by loarie on 12 April, 2022
replaced with

Comments

Psammophis trinasalis is now Psammophis leightoni

Leighton's Sand Snake (Psammophis leightoni). Three species of sand snake - the Cape Sand Snake (Psammophis leightoni), the Namib Sand Snake (Psammophis namibensis) and the Fork-marked Sand Snake (Psammophis trinasalis) were recently synonymized and are now treated as a single species.

Paper reference here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/zsc.12514

Posted by tyroneping about 2 years ago

ERROR IN TAXON SWAP: Psammophis trinasalis is a synonym of Psammophis leightoni, not of Psammophis afroccidentalis.

Posted by m_burger about 2 years ago

I agree this is a incorrect taxon swap.

Posted by wernerconradie about 2 years ago

@loarie, any progress on the correction? Thanks

Posted by alexanderr about 2 years ago

Apologies and thanks for catching that. I reverted Psammophis trinasalis -> Psammophis afroccidentalis, changed it to Psammophis trinasalis -> Psammophis leightoni (see above) and committed. Thanks all!

Posted by loarie about 2 years ago

Thanks!

Posted by alexanderr about 2 years ago

Add a Comment

Sign In or Sign Up to add comments
 
Member of the iNaturalist Network   |   Powered by iNaturalist open source software |   Documentation for developers