One species found in Togo is Atheris chlorechis. JCM
The Togolese Republic is a West Africa nation bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea. Togo covers an area of about 57,000 square kilometers with a population of approximately 6.7 million people highly dependent on agriculture. Togo has very little remaining rainforest and what is left is degraded and fragmented by subsistence slash-and-burn agriculture, mining and deforestation for fuel wood. The country has a poorly known herpetofauna. Segniagbeto et al. (2011) published an annotated list of 91 snake species representing 10 families, including seven species recorded for the first time from this country (Calabaria reinhardtii, Hapsidophrys lineatus, Lycophidion nigromaculatum, Philothamnus carinatus, Leptotyphlops cf. narirostris, Letheobia crossi and Typhlops lineolatus). The species present are a mixture of forest and savanna forms from the Sudenese and Guinea savannas and as well as forest which includes the Dahomey gap, a range that peaks at 900 m with heavy amounts of precipitation and forms an island of forest habitat surrounded by savannas. It therefore seems likely to be an area of endemism - three endemic frogs are already known from the region Conraua derooi, Hyperolius baumanni and H. torrentis. The entire article can be found on-line.
