We present new Gabonese locality records for Kinixys erosa (Testudinidae), Trioceros camerunensis and T. oweni (Chamaeleonidae), Hemidactylus coalescens (Gekkonidae), Holaspis guentheri (Lacertidae), Mochlus striatus, Panaspis breviceps (Scincidae), Dipsadoboa weileri, Grayia ornata, Thelotornis kirtlandii, Thrasops flavigularis, Toxicodryas adamantea (Colubridae), Atractaspis corpulenta corpulenta, Boaedon virgatus, Bothrolycus ater, Hormonotus modestus, Lycophidion laterale, Mehelya stenophthalmus (Lamprophiidae) and Hydraethiops melanogaster (Natricidae). Four species are recorded for the first time from Ngounié Province, one from Estuaire Province, two from Moyen-Ogooué Province, one from Arboretum Raponda-Walker, and five for Crystal Mounts National Park. We report several new records of foraging heights in trees.
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We present new Gabonese locality records for Mecistops leptorhynchus, Osteolaemus tetraspis (Crocodylidae), Ichnotropis bivittata (Lacertidae), Lacertaspis reichenowii (Scincidae), Varanus ornatus (Varanidae), Dipsadoboa weileri, Grayia ornata (first record from Gabon of the striped form), Philothamnus hughesi, Thelotornis kirtlandii, Toxicodryas blandingii (Colubridae), Dendroaspis jamesoni jamesoni, Naja annulata (Elapidae), Bothrolycus ater, Hormonotus modestus, Mehelya poensis (Lamprophiidae), Prosymna ambigua (first documented record for Gabon) (Prosymnidae), Python sebae (Pythonidae), Bitis arietans and B. nasicornis (tenth reptile species recorded from a cave in Gabon) (Viperidae). One species is newly recorded from Loango National Park, three from Haut-Ogooué Province, and one from Nyanga Province. We report a fatal envenomation presumably due to Dendroaspis jamesoni jamesoni in Ogooué-Ivindo Province. We reject a record of Grayia ornata from Mount Kupe, Cameroon.
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