{{Short description|Genus of snakes}} {{Speciesbox | image = | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Wilms, T. |author-link=species:Thomas M. Wilms |author2=Wagner, P. |author2-link=species:Philipp Wagner |date=2013 |title=''Bamanophis dorri '' |volume=2013 |article-number=e.T13264896A13264903 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T13264896A13264903.en |access-date=18 November 2021}}</ref> | parent_authority = Schätti & J.-F. Trape, 2008<ref name=RDB/> | taxon = Bamanophis dorri | authority = (Lataste, 1888) | synonyms = *''Periops dorri'' <br />{{small|Lataste, 1888}} *''Zamenis dorri'' <br />{{small|— Boulenger, 1893}} *''Coluber dorri'' <br />{{small|— Dekeyser & Villiers, 1954}} *''Eremiophis dorri'' <br />{{small|— Welch, 1983}} *''Haemorrhois dorri'' <br />{{small|— Mierte, 1992}} *''Bamanophis dorri'' <br />{{small|— Schätti & J.–F. Trape}} | synonyms_ref = <ref name=RDB/> }}
'''''Bamanophis''''' is a genus of snake in the family Colubridae. The genus contains the sole species '''''Bamanophis dorri''''', which is native to West Africa.<ref name=RDB/>
==Etymology== The specific name, ''dorri'', is in honor of French military officer Emile Dorr (1857–1907), who collected the holotype.<ref>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}}. (''Coluber dorri'', p. 75).</ref>
==Geographic range== ''B. dorri'' is found in northern Benin, Burkina Faso, northern Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, and northern Togo.<ref name=RDB/>
==Habitat== The preferred natural habitat of ''B. dorri'' is rocky areas in savanna.<ref name="iucn status 18 November 2021"/>
==Description== Dorsally, ''B. dorri'' is gray or reddish, with a series of X-shaped dark spots.<ref name=Blgr>Boulenger GA (1893).</ref> Ventrally, it is yellowish white.<ref name=Lataste/> Adults may attain a total length (including tail) of {{cvt|73.5|cm|in}}.<ref name=Blgr/><ref name=Lataste>Lataste F (1888).</ref>
==Reproduction== ''B. dorri'' is oviparous.<ref name=RDB/>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=RDB>{{NRDB species|genus=Bamanophis|species=dorri|accessdate=5 December 2016}}</ref> }}
==Further reading== *Boulenger GA (1893). ''Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families ... Colubridæ Aglyphæ, part.'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I–XXVIII. (''Zamenis dorri'', pp. 410–411. *Lataste F (1888). "''Description d'un ophidien diacrantérien nouveau ( ''Periops dorri'', n. sp.) Originaire du Haut-Sénégal'' ". ''Le Naturaliste, Deuxième Série'' '''10''': 227–228. (''Periops dorri'', new species). (in French). *Schätti B, Trape J-F (2008). "''Bamanophis'', a new genus for the West African colubrid ''Periops dorri'' Lataste, 1888 (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubrinae)". ''Revue suisse de Zoologie'' '''115''' (4): 595–615.
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Category:Colubrinae Category:Monotypic snake genera Category:Taxa named by Beat Schätti
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