Philothamnus girardi

Philothamnus girardi is a species of snake in the family Colubridae.[1] The species was described and named by José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage in 1893.[2] The specific name, girardi, is in honor of French-Portuguese zoologist Alberto Arthur Alexandre Girard (1860-1914).[3]

Philothamnus girardi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Philothamnus
Species:	P. girardi
Binomial name
Philothamnus girardi Bocage, 1893[1]

Geographic range

P. girardi occurs on the island of Annobón in Equatorial Guinea. The species may also occur in the Republic of the Congo.[1]

References

1. Philothamnus girardi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 16 January 2019.
2. Barbosa du Bocage, J.V. (1893). Diagnoses de deux nouveaux reptiles de l'île de Anno-Bon Jornal de Sciências, Mathemáticas, Physicas e Naturaes, Lisbõa, sér. 2, vol. 3, p. 47-48
3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Philothamnus girardi, p. 101).

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers), p. 102).