No, I don't think so. Pretty sure I read a reference to Ionides in another book. Probably one of Peter Capstick's. He wrote a fair amount about the poisonous snakes of Africa and Ionides was probably mentioned in some of those. I read all of Capstick's books.

My memory is not great, but Ionides is just a name I couldn't forget.


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