Buhoma

Buhoma is a genus of snakes in the family Lamprophiidae. The genus is endemic to Africa.[2]

Buhoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Lamprophiidae
Genus:	Buhoma Ziegler, Vences, Glaw, & Böhme, 1997[1]

Species

Three species are recognized as being valid.[2]

• Buhoma depressiceps (F. Werner, 1897)[3][4] – pale-headed forest snake
• Buhoma procterae (Loveridge, 1922)[5] – Uluguru forest snake
• Buhoma vauerocegae (Tornier, 1902)[6] – Usambara forest snake

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Buhoma.

References

1. Ziegler, Thomas; Vences, Miguel; Glaw, Frank; Bohme, Wolfgang (1997). "Genital morphology and systematics of Geodipsas Boulenger, 1896 (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae), with description of a new genus". Revue suisse de Zoologie. 104: 95–114. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.79992. ISSN 0035-418X. (Buhoma, new genus, p. 108)).
2. Genus Buhoma at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
3. Werner, Franz (1897). "Ueber Reptilien und Batrachier aus Togoland, Kamerun und Tunis aus dem kgl. Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin ". Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlich zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 47: 395–407. (Tropidonotus depressiceps, new species, p. 402). (in German).
4. Werner, Franz (1899). "Ueber Reptilien und Batrachier aus Togoland, Kamerun und Deutsch-Neu-Guinea grösstentheils aus dem k. Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 49: 132–157. (in German).
5. Loveridge, Arthur (1922). "New reptiles from Tanganyika Territory". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1922: 313–315. (Geodipsas procterae, new species, p. 313).
6. Tornier, Gustav (1902). "Herpetologisch Neues aus Ost-Afrika". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 25: 700–704. (Geodipsas vauerocegae, new species, p. 703). (in German).