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Reptiles
 Snakes
 Lamprophiidae
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Bibliography of the genus
Limaformosa (Venus File Snakes)
(Reptilia: Serpentes: Lamprophiidae)
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Limaformosa in general
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Broadley, D.G.; Tolley, K.A.; Conradie, W.; Wishart, S.; Trape, J.F.; Burger, M.; Kusamba, C.; Zassi-Boulou, A.G.; Greenbaum, E. 2018. A phylogeny and genus-level revision of the African file snakes Gonionotophis Boulenger (Squamata: Lamprophiidae). African Journal of Herpetology 67(1): 43-60.
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Limaformosa capensis
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Branch, W.R.; McCartney, C.J. 1992. A report on a small collection of reptiles from southern Angola. Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa 41: 1-3.
Broadley, D.G. 1974. A puzzling case of ophiophagy in Rhodesia. Journal of Herpetology 8(3): 247.
Ditmars, R.L. 1940. File snake, Simocephalus capensis. Rep. New York Zool. Soc. 44: 23.
FitzSimons, V. 1956. Reptiles and Amphibians of the Wonderboom Nature Reserve. Fauna and Flora (Pretoria) 7: 89-106.
Frade, F.; Manacas, S. 1955. Serpentes do Ultramar portugues. Garcia de Orta Sér. Zool. (Lisboa) 3(4): 547-553.
Krzystyniak, S.; Pewtress, R. 1983. Reproduction in the Cape File Snake, Mehelya capensis (Serpentes: Colubridae). Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa 29: 12.
Pewtress, R. 1983. Hatching of the Cape File Snake (Mehelya capensis) in captivity. Herptile 8(3): 115-117.
Shine, R.; Branch, W.R.; Harlow, P.S.; Webb, J.K. 1996. Sexual dimorphism, reproductive biology, and food habits of two species of African filesnakes (Mehelya, Colubridae). Journal of Zoology (London) 240(2): 327-340.
Spawls, S. 1988. Life history notes: Mehelya capensis capensis (Cape File Snake). Behavior. Herpetological Review 19(4): 85.
Spawls, S.; Graff, J. de 1989. New snake records for Botswana, southern Africa. Herpetological Review 20(1): 14-15.
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Limaformosa chanleri
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Broadley, D.G. 1985. Geographic distribution: Mehelya capensis unicolor (Unicolor Cape File-snake). Herpetological Review 16(2): 60.
Lanza, B.; Broadley, D.G. 2014. A review of the genus Gonionotophis in north-eastern Africa (Squamata: Lamprophiidae). Acta Herpetologica 9(1): 89-97.
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Limaformosa crossi
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Akani, G.C.; Capizzi, D.; Luiselli, L. 2001. Natural history notes: Mehelya crossi (West African File Snake). Diet. Herpetological Review 32(1): 49-50.
Broadley, D.G. 2007. On the status of Simocephalus riggenbachi Sternfeld 1910. African Journal of Herpetology 56(2): 171-173.
Howell, K.M.; Broadley, D.G. 2014. Geographical distributions: Gonionotophis crossii (Boulenger, 1895). Crosse's File Snake. African Herp News 61: 41-42.
Trape, J.F.; Baldé, C. 2014. A checklist of the snake fauna of Guinea, with taxonomic changes in the genera Philothamnus and Dipsadoboa (Colubridae) and a comparison with the snake fauna of some other West African countries. Zootaxa 3900(3): 301-338.
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Limaformosa savorgnani
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Lönnberg, E.; Andersson, L.G. 1913. On a collection of reptiles from Kismayu. Arkiv för Zoologi (Stockholm) 8: 1-6.
Owen, J.S. 1956. Torit snakes. Sudan Notes 37: 92-93.
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