This genus is named after the Bamana people from Senegal to northern Ghana and the Greek word ophis, i.e. snake.(From Schatti and Trape 2008)
Bamanophis gen. n. is a monotypic colubrine genus from the Sahel to Guinea Savanna.It is well defined by external morphology, osteology and hemipenis features. B. dorri (Lataste) shows a variety of scale and skull character states unknown in Afrotropical, Palaearctic, and Saharo-Sindian racers and related genera.Noteworthy are differences in midbody dorsal scale row number frequencies, in midbody dorsal scale row number frequencies between males and females and significant sexual dimorphism of ventral counts in Senegal.
(From Schatti and Trape, 2008)
