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and Gunther 2013) but few can be traced to particular plate figures, and the lectotype of Python 
sebae is not among these. Likewise, the specimen noted by Gronovius (1756) is also untraceable. 
His collection was dispersed as a result of an auction held in Leiden in 1778 (Wheeler 1958). 
Gronovius refered to Seba’s plate in his own work and repeated the locality “Brasiliensis, e regione 
Guaira,” however, his measurements and scale counts were based on a specimen in his own 
collection. FitzSimons (1962) and McDiarmid et al. (1999) incorrectly gave the type locality as 
“America” and the former author corrected this to “America.” The extraordinary confusion over 
the type specimens and localities of both P. natalensis and P. sebae suggest that most modem 
authors have relied on secondary sources for their information. Spawls and Branch (1995:19) and 
Bellosa et al. (2007) provided a map with the distribution ranges for both large species of Angolan 
Python in which P. sebae is limited to the northern regions of Angola from northern Mexico to 
Luanda, where it overlaps with Python natalensis, which occurs in central and south Angola. 
Family Boidae Gray, 1825 
Genus Calabaria Gray, 1858 
Calabaria reinhardtii (Schlegel, 1851) Calabar Ground Boa 
Eryx reinhardtii Schlegel 1851:1, pi. Holotype: ZMB 1471 (eolleetor H. Halleur, don. J.T. Reinhardt). Type 
loeality: “possessions danoises a la Cote d’or” (Sehlegel 1851:2), [= Ghana], restrieted to “Aqua Pirn” 
[= Akwapim], Ghana by Hughes and Barry (1969:1010) on the basis of data assoeiated with speeimen. 
Calabaria Reinhardtii: Boeage (1895a:74). 
Calabaria reinhardtii: Frade (1963:252). 
Calabaria reinhardtii: Chirio and LeBreton (2007:364), Wallaeh et al. (2014:130). 
Charina reinhardtii: MeDiarmid et al. (1999:203). 
Global conservation status (lUCN): Not Evaluated. 
Global distribution: The species is known from West and Central Africa, from Guinea to 
Cameroon and Central African Republic, south to the Democratic Republic of Congo. 
Ocurrences in Angola (Map 267): The 
species occurs in the Cabinda enclave. Cabin¬ 
da: “Cabinda” [-5.55000, 12.18333] (Frade 
1963:252). 
Taxonomic and distributional notes: 
Stimson (1969) and McDiarmid et al. (1999) 
considered the type untraced. Bauer et al. 
(2002) demonstrated that the specimen was in 
Berlin, not in Leiden as many had supposed. 
Although Stimson (1969) provided the correct 
year of description (1851) he provided the 
wrong volume of the Bijdragen tot de 
Dierkunde (vol. 1). Subsequent authors have 
cited both the wrong year (1848) and the 
wrong volume number (vol. 1 instead of 
vol. 3) (McDiarmid et al. 1999; Wallaeh et al. 
2014). Most recent literature does not include 
“Cabinda” in the distribution of Calabaria Distribution of Calabaria reinhardUi in 
rem/iarr/tn (McDiarmid et al. 1999; Chirio and 
LeBreton 2007; Wallaeh et al. 2014), however, the proximity and biotic affinities of Cabinda to 
West and Central Africa account for its presence there. 
