African brown water snake | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Colubridae |
Genus: | Afronatrix Rossman & Eberle, 1977 |
Species: | A. anoscopus |
Binomial name | |
Afronatrix anoscopus (Cope, 1861) | |
The African brown water snake (Afronatrix anoscopus) is a snake in the family Colubridae . [2]
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