Limnophis bicolor Günther, 1865

Parrinha, Diogo, Calado, Francisco M. G., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2025, Echoes of a lost museum: Revision of the herpetological collections sent by Barbosa du Bocage from the Lisbon Museum to the British Museum of Natural History, Vertebrate Zoology 75, pp. 353-404 : 353-404

Limnophis bicolor Günther, 1865 *

Specimens.

Angola: Duque de Bragança : BMNH 1946.1.14.53 –54 (not examined) [ syntypes, originally BMNH 1864.10.28.16 ; Figs 28 , 29 ] .

Comments.

Among the first shipment of specimens collected by Bayão at Duque de Bragança and subsequently sent by Bocage to the British Museum for identification, two specimens were used by Günther (1865 b) to describe a new genus and species, Limnophis bicolor . Since Bocage had additional specimens sent by Bayão ( Bocage 1866 a), he presented the types to the British Museum ( Boulenger 1893; Bocage 1895; AHMB /CE/G76 , NHMA /DF/GüntherColl/16/1/104 ). Although the types were recently examined and photographed for a revision of the genus ( Conradie et al. 2020), we were unable to locate and examine them during our visits.

Figures

Figure 28. Syntype of Limnophis bicolor (BMNH 1946.1. 14.53). Photos by Veerappan Deepak.

Figure 29. Syntype of Limnophis bicolor (BMNH 1946.1. 14.54). Photos by Veerappan Deepak.