Eastern vine snake

Eastern vine snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Colubridae
Genus:Thelotornis
Species: T. mossambicanus
Binomial name
Thelotornis mossambicanus
(Bocage, 1895)
Synonyms[1]
  • Dryiophis kirtlandii var. mossambicana
    Bocage, 1895
  • Thelotornis capensis mossambicanus
    — Rasmussen, 1981
  • Thelotornis mossambicanus
    — Broadley, 2001

The eastern vine snake (Thelotornis mossambicanus), also known commonly as the eastern twig snake, is a species of venomous snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Eastern Africa.

Geographic range

T. mossambicanus is found in southeastern Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, southern Somalia, Tanzania, Zambia, and eastern Zimbabwe.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Species Thelotornis mossambicanus at The Reptile Database

Further reading

  • Bocage JVB du (1895). Herpétologie d'Angola et du Congo, Ouvrage Publié sous les Auspices du Ministère de la Marine et des Colonies. Lisbon: Imprimerie Nationale. xx + 203 pp. + Plates I-XIX. (Dryiophis kirtlandii var. mossambicana, new variation, pp. 119-120). (in French).


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