Toxicodryas adamanteus Greenbaum, Allen, Vaughan, Pauwels, Wallach, Kusamba, Muninga, Mwenebatu, Mali, Badjedjea, Penner, Rödel, Rivera, Sterkhova, Johnson, Tapoandjou & Brown, 2021

Figure 21C

Toxicodryas adamanteus Greenbaum, Allen, Vaughan, Pauwels, Wallach, Kusamba, Muninga, Mwenebatu, Mali, Badjedjea, Penner, Rödel, Rivera, Sterkhova, Johnson, Tapoandjou & Brown, 2021 .

Type locality: “ Npenda village, NE of Lake Tumba (00.7465°S, 18.2243°E, 311 m), Equateur Province, DRC ” .

Distribution. It extends from the East of the Niger Delta to Kenya, southward to northern Angola (Greenbaum et al. 2021). In Equatorial Guinea it has been recorded both from Bioko (Boulenger 1896; Bocage 1903) and Río Muni, at Cabo San Juan (Boulenger 1905) and Monte Alén National Park (Lasso et al. 2002) (Map 24A).

Comments. A recently described species splitted from T. pulverulenta (Fisher, 1856) where it was formerly included (Greenbaum et al. 2021). There are no precise records of this species for Bioko (Mertens 1964a).

Specimens examined. Fifteen specimens. Equatorial Guinea, without specific locality, but likely part of the material examined by Boulenger (1905) from Cabo San Juan (MNCN 23813) . Río Muni: Miboman (30 km from Niefang), 01 February 1987 [EBD 25023 (includes 6 specimens)] ; Miboman (road to Niefang), 7–8 July 1986 (EBD 20824–20825) , 6 September 1986 (EBD 20823); Miboman (road of Bata-Movo-Niefang), August 1987 (EBD 27530) ; Miboman, December 1987 (EBD 27738) ; Bata, December 1987 (EBD 27746) ; Bata (road of Movo-Miboman-Niefang), September 1987 (EBD 27518) ; San Joaquín de Ndyiacom (road from Bata to Ayamiken), 03 February 1987 (EBD 24978) .