World Species : Hydraethiops melanogaster (Blackbelly Snake)

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Hydraethiops melanogaster (Blackbelly Snake)

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Synonyms: Helicops lineofasciatus; Helicops marginatus

Ecoregions

Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests	Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests	Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Mount Cameroon and Bioko montane forests	Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Northeastern Congolian lowland forests	Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Republic of the Congo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Central African Republic, Cameroon	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Northwestern Congolian lowland forests	Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Western Congolian forest-savanna mosaic	Gabon, Congo, Democratic Rep of the Congo, Angola	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Western Congolian swamp forests	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic	Species	Website
Guinean Forests of West Africa	Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Togo	No

External References

Citations

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database

Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0