Scientists rediscover a ‘ghost’ green mamba hidden in a Polish museum for decades after its 1885 discovery
- PC: AI GeneratedA green mamba specimen from São Tomé Island that dates back to 1885 has been found after decades of being regarded as lost, which gives scientists a rare opportunity to revisit the identity of one of the Gulf of Guinea’s most mysterious snakes.
- Adolfo Möller found the specimen during an expedition to the island, after which zoologist Jacques Vladimir von Bedriaga examined it.
- According to the study published in Bio One Digital Library titled ‘The materialization of a ghost: redescription of Bedriaga’s ‘lost’ specimen of Green Mamba (Elapidae: Dendroaspis) from São Tomé Island’,
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- PC: AI GeneratedA green mamba specimen from São Tomé Island that dates back to 1885 has been found after decades of being regarded as lost, which gives scientists a rare opportunity to revisit the identity of one of the Gulf of Guinea’s most mysterious snakes.
- Adolfo Möller found the specimen during an expedition to the island, after which zoologist Jacques Vladimir von Bedriaga examined it.
- According to the study published in Bio One Digital Library titled ‘The materialization of a ghost: redescription of Bedriaga’s ‘lost’ specimen of Green Mamba (Elapidae: Dendroaspis) from São Tomé Island’,
Sources: Times of India