Chilorhinophis carpenteri

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Chilorhinophis carpenteri
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Lamprophiidae
Genus: Chilorhinophis
Species:
C. carpenteri
Binomial name
Chilorhinophis carpenteri
(Parker, 1927)
Synonyms [1]
  • Parkerophis carpenteri
    Parker, 1927
  • Chilorhinophis carpenteri
    de Witte & Laurent, 1947
  • Chilorhinophis butleri
    Battersby, 1950

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.

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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]

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References

  1. 1 2 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 Series20: 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).