Meizodon regularis

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Subordo: Serpentes
Infraordo: Caenophidia
Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Meizodon
Species: Meizodon regularis
Name

Meizodon regularis Fischer, 1856

Type locality: Peki [Ghana, near frontier to Togo], leg.

Holotype: ZMH R02638 (formerly no. 77), male.
Synonyms

Meizodon regularis Fischer, 1856
Coronella (Mizodon [sic]) regularis Fischer, 1883: 15
Coronella coronata Schmidt, 1923: 87 (fide Schätti, 1985)
Meizodon regularis Broadley, 1998
Meizodon regularis Chirio & Ineich, 2006

References

Fischer, J.G. 1856: Neue Schlangen des Hamburgischen Naturhistorischen Museums. Abhandl. Nat. Ver. Hamburg 3(4): 79–116.
Broadley, D.G. 1998: The reptilian fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa). In: Schmidt, K.P. and Noble, G.K., Contributions to the Herpetology of the Belgian Congo. [reprint of the 1919 and 1923 papers]. SSAR Facsimile reprints in Herpetology, 780 pp.
Chirio, Laurent and Ivan Ineich 2006: Biogeography of the reptiles of the Central African Republic. African Journal of Herpetology 55(1):23-59.

Links

Meizodon regularis at the New Reptile Database. Accessed on 27 sep 2008.

Vernacular names
English: Eastern Crowned Snake

Meizodon regularis, the eastern crowned smooth snake, is a species of snakes in the subfamily Colubrinae. It is found in Africa.
References

Fischer JG, 1856. Neue Schlangen des Hamburgischen Naturhistorischen Museums. Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften, 3 (4), pages 79-116 (description p. 112). (in German).
Jan, G.A. (1863): Enumerazione sistematica degli Ofidi appartenti al gruppo Coronellidae. Arch. Zool. Anat. Fiss., 2(2), pages 213-330