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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Subordo: Serpentes
Infraordo: Caenophidia
Superfamilia: Elapoidea
Familia: Incertae sedis
Genus: Buhoma
Species: B. depressiceps – B. procterae – B. vauerocegae
Name

Buhoma Ziegler, Vences, Glaw & Böhme, 1997
References
Primary references

Ziegler, T., Vences, M., Glaw, F. & Böhme, W. 1997. Genital morphology and systematics of Geodipsas Boulenger, 1896 (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae), with description of a new genus. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 104(1): 95–114. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.79992 Reference page.

Buhoma is a genus of snakes in the family Lamprophiidae. The genus is endemic to Africa.[2]
Species

Three species are recognized as being valid.[2]

Buhoma depressiceps (F. Werner, 1897)[3][4] – pale-headed forest snake
Buhoma procterae (Loveridge, 1922)[5] – Uluguru forest snake
Buhoma vauerocegae (Tornier, 1902)[6] – Usambara forest snake

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

Ziegler, Thomas; Vences, Miguel; Glaw, Frank; Bohme, Wolfgang (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)).
Genus Buhoma at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
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).
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).
Loveridge, Arthur (1922). "New reptiles from Tanganyika Territory". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1922: 313–315. (Geodipsas procterae, new species, p. 313).
Tornier, Gustav (1902). "Herpetologisch Neues aus Ost-Afrika". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 25: 700–704. (Geodipsas vauerocegae, new species, p. 703). (in German).

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