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Lycodonomorphus Whytii
''Lycodonomorphus'' is a genus of snakes commonly referred to as African water snakes. They are small, nonvenomous snakes, with all members being endemic to Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ..., especially Tanzania. Species The following nine species are recognized as being valid. *''Lycodonomorphus bicolor'' — Tanganyika white-bellied water snake *''Lycodonomorphus inornatus'' — Olive house snake, Olive ground snake *''Lycodonomorphus laevissimus'' — Dusky-bellied water snake *''Lycodonomorphus leleupi'' — Congo dark-bellied water snake, Mulanje water snake *''Lycodonomorphus mlanjensis'' — Mlanje white-bellied water snake *''Lycodonomorphus obscuriventris'' — Floodplain water snake *''Lycodonomorphus rufulus'' — Common brown water snake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycodonomorphus Inornatus
''Lycodonomorphus inornatus'', commonly known as the olive house snake, the black house snake, and the olive ground snake, is a species of nonvenomous snake in the Family (biology), family Lamprophiidae. The species is Endemism, endemic to southern Africa. It is a nocturnal snake with terrestrial habits. Description ''L. inornatus'' commonly reaches a total length (including tail) of , with a recorded maximum of . Individuals may be dark olive to black, or uniformly light brown to olive grey-green, with a uniform or slightly lighter belly, especially the chin, throat and neck. Distribution and habitat The olive house snake occurs in South Africa and Eswatini, where it is found along the eastern coastal belt from the southwestern Cape through East London to the Transkei, and extending through low-veld regions of the KwaZulu-Natal, the Mpumalanga escarpment and the Limpopo Province. It inhabits coastal bushveld, fynbos and grassveld where sufficient moisture is present, and may oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leopold Fitzinger
Leopold Joseph Franz Johann Fitzinger (13 April 1802 – 20 September 1884) was an Austrian zoologist. Fitzinger was born in Vienna and studied botany at the University of Vienna under Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin. He worked at the Vienna Naturhistorisches Museum between 1817, when he joined as a volunteer assistant, and 1821, when he left to become secretary to the provincial legislature of Lower Austria; after a hiatus, he was appointed assistant curator in 1844 and remained at the Naturhistorisches Museum until 1861. Later, he became director of the zoos of Munich and Budapest. In 1826, he published ''Neue Classification der Reptilien'', based partly on the work of his friends Friedrich Wilhelm Hemprich and Heinrich Boie. In 1843, he published ''Systema Reptilium'', covering geckos, chameleons and iguanas. Fitzinger is commemorated in the scientific names of five reptiles: ''Algyroides fitzingeri'', ''Leptotyphlops fitzingeri'', ''Liolaemus fitzingerii'', ''Micrurus tener, Micr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nota Bene
( ; plural: ) is the Latin language, Latin phrase meaning ''note well''. In manuscripts, ''nota bene'' is abbreviated in upper-case as NB and N.B., and in lower-case as n.b. and nb; the editorial usages of ''nota bene'' and ''notate bene'' first appeared in the English writing style, English style of writing around the year 1711. In Modern English, since the 14th century, the editorial usage of ''NB'' is common to the legal writing, legal style of writing of documents to direct the reader's attention to a thematically relevant aspect of the subject that qualifies the matter being litigated, whereas in academic writing, the editorial abbreviation ''n.b.'' is a casual synonym for ''footnote''. In medieval manuscripts, the editorial marks used to draw the reader's attention to a supporting text also are called marks; however, the catalogue of medieval editorial marks does not include the NB abbreviation. The medieval equivalents to the n.b.-mark are anagrams derived from the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Albert Boulenger
George Albert Boulenger (19 October 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a Belgian-British zoologist who described and gave scientific names to over 2,000 new animal species, chiefly fish, reptiles, and amphibians. Boulenger was also an active botanist during the last 30 years of his life, especially in the study of roses. Life Boulenger was born in Brussels, Belgium, the only son of Gustave Boulenger, a Belgian public notary, and Juliette Piérart, from Valenciennes. He graduated in 1876 from the Free University of Brussels (1834–1969), Free University of Brussels with a degree in natural sciences, and worked for a while at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, as an assistant naturalist studying amphibians, reptiles, and fishes. He also made frequent visits during this time to the ''National Museum of Natural History (France), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle'' in Paris and the Natural History Museum, London, British Museum in London. Boulenger develop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycodonomorphus Whytii
''Lycodonomorphus'' is a genus of snakes commonly referred to as African water snakes. They are small, nonvenomous snakes, with all members being endemic to Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ..., especially Tanzania. Species The following nine species are recognized as being valid. *''Lycodonomorphus bicolor'' — Tanganyika white-bellied water snake *''Lycodonomorphus inornatus'' — Olive house snake, Olive ground snake *''Lycodonomorphus laevissimus'' — Dusky-bellied water snake *''Lycodonomorphus leleupi'' — Congo dark-bellied water snake, Mulanje water snake *''Lycodonomorphus mlanjensis'' — Mlanje white-bellied water snake *''Lycodonomorphus obscuriventris'' — Floodplain water snake *''Lycodonomorphus rufulus'' — Common brown water snake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycodonomorphus Subtaeniatus
''Lycodonomorphus'' is a genus of snakes commonly referred to as African water snakes. They are small, nonvenomous snakes, with all members being endemic to Africa, especially Tanzania. Species The following nine species are recognized as being valid. *'' Lycodonomorphus bicolor'' — Tanganyika white-bellied water snake *''Lycodonomorphus inornatus'' — Olive house snake, Olive ground snake *''Lycodonomorphus laevissimus'' — Dusky-bellied water snake *'' Lycodonomorphus leleupi'' — Congo dark-bellied water snake, Mulanje water snake *'' Lycodonomorphus mlanjensis'' — Mlanje white-bellied water snake *'' Lycodonomorphus obscuriventris'' — Floodplain water snake *'' Lycodonomorphus rufulus'' — Common brown water snake *'' Lycodonomorphus subtaeniatus'' — Eastern Congo white-bellied water snake, Lined water snake *''Lycodonomorphus whytii'' — Whyte's water snake ''Nota bene'': A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivian Frederick Maynard FitzSimons
Vivian Frederick Maynard FitzSimons, born in Pietermaritzburg, was a notable herpetologist in South Africa. Also, he contributed to the collection of spermatophyte samples for the National Herbarium which has become part of the South African National Biodiversity Institute at the Pretoria National Botanical Garden. In 1937, together with Anna Amelia Obermeyer, he collected some of the earliest plant specimens from the Eastern Highlands of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Later, as director of the Transvaal Museum, he together with Charles Koch helped to establish the Namib Desert Research Institute in Gobabeb Family Vivian FitzSimons came from a family of naturalists. His father, Frederick William FitzSimons, and his mother Patricia Henrietta (née Russell), both immigrated to South Africa from Ireland. His brother was Desmond Charles Fitzsimons, who in 1939 founded the Fitzsimons Snake Park (Durban) and was a leading distributor of snake antivenoms in South Africa. Vivian FitzSimo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycodonomorphus Obscuriventris
''Lycodonomorphus'' is a genus of snakes commonly referred to as African water snakes. They are small, nonvenomous snakes, with all members being endemic to Africa, especially Tanzania. Species The following nine species are recognized as being valid. *'' Lycodonomorphus bicolor'' — Tanganyika white-bellied water snake *''Lycodonomorphus inornatus'' — Olive house snake, Olive ground snake *''Lycodonomorphus laevissimus'' — Dusky-bellied water snake *'' Lycodonomorphus leleupi'' — Congo dark-bellied water snake, Mulanje water snake *'' Lycodonomorphus mlanjensis'' — Mlanje white-bellied water snake *'' Lycodonomorphus obscuriventris'' — Floodplain water snake *''Lycodonomorphus rufulus'' — Common brown water snake *''Lycodonomorphus subtaeniatus'' — Eastern Congo white-bellied water snake, Lined water snake *''Lycodonomorphus whytii'' — Whyte's water snake ''Nota bene'': A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Loveridge
Arthur Loveridge (28 May 1891 – 16 February 1980) was a British people, British biologist and Herpetology, herpetologist who wrote about animals of East Africa, particularly Tanzania, and of New Guinea. He gave Binomial nomenclature, scientific names to several gecko species in those regions. Life Arthur Loveridge was born in Penarth, Wales, and was interested in natural history from childhood. He gained experience with the National Museum Cardiff, National Museum of Wales and Manchester Museum before becoming the curator of the Nairobi Museum (now the National Museums of Kenya, National Museum of Kenya) in 1914. During World War I, WW1, he joined the King's African Rifles#First World War, East African Mounted Rifles, later returning to the museum to build up the collections. He then became an assistant game warden in Tanganyika (territory), Tanganyika. In 1924, he joined the Museum of Comparative Zoology in the grounds of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lycodonomorphus Mlanjensis
''Lycodonomorphus'' is a genus of snakes commonly referred to as African water snakes. They are small, nonvenomous snakes, with all members being endemic to Africa, especially Tanzania. Species The following nine species are recognized as being valid. *'' Lycodonomorphus bicolor'' — Tanganyika white-bellied water snake *''Lycodonomorphus inornatus'' — Olive house snake, Olive ground snake *''Lycodonomorphus laevissimus'' — Dusky-bellied water snake *'' Lycodonomorphus leleupi'' — Congo dark-bellied water snake, Mulanje water snake *'' Lycodonomorphus mlanjensis'' — Mlanje white-bellied water snake *''Lycodonomorphus obscuriventris'' — Floodplain water snake *''Lycodonomorphus rufulus'' — Common brown water snake *''Lycodonomorphus subtaeniatus'' — Eastern Congo white-bellied water snake, Lined water snake *''Lycodonomorphus whytii'' — Whyte's water snake ''Nota bene'': A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally descr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Ferdinand Laurent
Raymond Ferdinand Louis-Philippe Laurent (16 May 1917 – 3 February 2005) was a Belgian herpetologist, who specialized in African and South American amphibians and reptiles. He published more than 200 scientific articles and book chapters. Several species have been named after him, most recently '' Phymaturus laurenti'' in 2010. Additional species of reptiles named in his honor include ''Chironius laurenti ''Chironius laurenti'' is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to Bolivia and Brazil. The species was named in honor of Raymond Laurent. Taxonomy ''C. laurenti'' belongs to the genus ''Chironius'' (com ...'', '' Liolaemus laurenti'', and '' Mehelya laurenti''. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Laurent, p. 152). References Further reading * ''(First page freely available online, remainder available to subscr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
