Buhoma

{{Short description|Genus of snakes}} {{Automatic Taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Buhoma | authority = Ziegler, Vences, Glaw, & Böhme, 1997<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ziegler |first1=Thomas |author-link1=Thomas Ziegler (zoologist)|last2=Vences |first2=Miguel |author-link2=Miguel Vences |last3=Glaw |first3=Frank |author-link3=Frank Glaw |last4=Bohme |first4=Wolfgang |author-link4=:de:Wolfgang Böhme (Zoologe) |date=1997 |title=Genital morphology and systematics of ''Geodipsas'' Boulenger, 1896 (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae), with description of a new genus |url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41272412 |journal=Revue suisse de Zoologie |volume=104 |pages=95–114 |doi=10.5962/bhl.part.79992 |issn=0035-418X|doi-access=free }} (''Buhoma'', new genus, p. 108)).</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Species }}

'''''Buhoma''''' is a genus of snakes in the superfamily Elapoidea. The genus is endemic to Africa.<ref name="RDB">{{EMBL genus|genus=Buhoma}} www.reptile-database.org.</ref>

It was formerly classified in the family Lamprophiidae, but following the split of that family, the taxonomic placement of ''Buhoma'' remains uncertain.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Search results {{!}} The Reptile Database |url=https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/advanced_search?genus=Buhoma&submit=Search |access-date=2022-07-21 |website=reptile-database.reptarium.cz}}</ref>

==Species== Three species are recognized as being valid.<ref name=RDB/> *''Buhoma depressiceps'' {{small|(F. Werner, 1897)}}<ref>Werner, Franz (1897). "''Ueber Reptilien und Batrachier aus Togoland, Kamerun und Tunis aus dem kgl. Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin'' ". ''Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlich zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien'' '''47''': 395–407. (''Tropidonotus depressiceps'', new species, p. 402). (in German).</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Werner |first=Franz |date=1899 |title=''Ueber Reptilien und Batrachier aus Togoland, Kamerun und Deutsch-Neu-Guinea grösstentheils aus dem k. Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin'' |url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13293874 |journal=Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien |volume=49 |pages=132–157}} (in German).</ref> – pale-headed forest snake *''Buhoma procterae'' {{small|(Loveridge, 1922)}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Loveridge |first=Arthur |author-link=Arthur Loveridge |date=1922 |title=New reptiles from Tanganyika Territory |url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32277631 |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London |volume=1922 |issue=2 |pages=313–315|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.1922.tb02143.x }} (''Geodipsas procterae'', new species, p. 313).</ref> – Uluguru forest snake *''Buhoma vauerocegae'' {{small|(Tornier, 1902)}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Tornier |first=Gustav |author-link=Gustav Tornier |date=1902 |title=''Herpetologisch Neues aus Ost-Afrika'' |url=https://archive.org/details/zoologischeranze25deut/page/700/mode/2up |journal=Zoologischer Anzeiger |volume=25 |pages=700–704}} (''Geodipsas vauerocegae'', new species, p. 703). (in German).</ref> – Usambara forest snake

A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than ''Buhoma''.

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Alethinophidia Category:Snake genera Category:Snakes of Africa Category:Taxa named by Wolfgang Böhme (herpetologist) Category:Taxa named by Frank Glaw Category:Taxa named by Miguel Vences Category:Taxa named by Thomas Ziegler (zoologist)