Buhoma

Buhoma is a genus of snakes in the superfamily Elapoidea. The genus is endemic to Africa.^[2]

Buhoma
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Superfamily:	Elapoidea
Genus:	Buhoma Ziegler [fr; de], Vences, Glaw, & Böhme [fr; de], 1997[1]

It was formerly classified in the family Lamprophiidae, but following the split of that family, the taxonomic placement of Buhoma remains uncertain.^[3]

Species

Three species are recognized as being valid.^[2]

• Buhoma depressiceps (F. Werner, 1897)^[4][5] – pale-headed forest snake
• Buhoma procterae (Loveridge, 1922)^[6] – Uluguru forest snake
• Buhoma vauerocegae (Tornier, 1902)^[7] – Usambara forest snake

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

References

1. Ziegler, Thomas [in French]; Vences, Miguel; Glaw, Frank; Bohme, Wolfgang [in German] (1997). "Genital morphology and systematics of Geodipsas Boulenger, 1896 (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae), with description of a new genus". Revue suisse de Zoologie. 104: 95–114. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.79992. ISSN 0035-418X. (Buhoma, new genus, p. 108)).
2. Genus Buhoma at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
3. "Search results | The Reptile Database". reptile-database.reptarium.cz. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
4. 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).
5. Werner, Franz (1899). "Ueber Reptilien und Batrachier aus Togoland, Kamerun und Deutsch-Neu-Guinea grösstentheils aus dem k. Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 49: 132–157. (in German).
6. Loveridge, Arthur (1922). "New reptiles from Tanganyika Territory". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1922 (2): 313–315. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1922.tb02143.x. (Geodipsas procterae, new species, p. 313).
7. Tornier, Gustav (1902). "Herpetologisch Neues aus Ost-Afrika". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 25: 700–704. (Geodipsas vauerocegae, new species, p. 703). (in German).