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Distribution

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Continent: Africa
Distribution: Sudan, Tanzania ?, Uganda ?, Kenya ?, Rwanda ?, Burundi ?
Type locality: from Mongalla in the southern Sudan (fide D. BROADLEY, pers. comm.).
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Chilorhinophis carpenteri

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Chilorhinophis carpenteri, or the Liwale two-headed snake, is a species of venomous snake in the family Atractaspididae.[2] The species is native to southeastern Africa.

Geographic range

C. carpenteri is found in Mozambique and southeastern Tanzania.[3]

Taxonomy

C. carpenteri was originally named Parkerophis carpenteri. Some herpetologists, including Battersby, consider C. carpenteri to be a synonym of C. butleri.[1]

Etymology

The specific name, carpenteri, honors the type specimen's collector, British physician and entomologist Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ a b Species Chilorhinophis butleri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
  2. ^ "Chilorhinophis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 5 September 2007.
  3. ^ Chilorhinophis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 8 May 2009.
  4. ^ Parker HW (1927). "Parallel evolution in some opisthoglyphous snakes, with the description of a new species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 20: 81-86. (Parkerophis carpenteri, new species, p. 85).
  5. ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Chilorhinophis carpenteri, p. 48).
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Chilorhinophis carpenteri: Brief Summary

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Chilorhinophis carpenteri, or the Liwale two-headed snake, is a species of venomous snake in the family Atractaspididae. The species is native to southeastern Africa.

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