Biology:Hormonotus
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Short description: Genus of snakes
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Lamprophiidae |
| Subfamily: | Lamprophiinae |
| Genus: | Hormonotus Hallowell, 1857 |
| Species: | H. modestus
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| Hormonotus modestus (Duméril, Bibron, and Auguste Duméril, 1854)
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Hormonotus is a genus of snakes. At present, this genus is monotypic, as there is only one commonly accepted species in it, Hormonotus modestus, commonly known as the Uganda house snake or yellow forest snake. It is widespread in tropical Africa.[1] Its sister taxon is Inyoka swazicus, the Swazi rock snake.[2]
Distribution
The snake is found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Republic of Congo (RoC − Brazzaville), Gabon, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Uganda and some other parts of Africa.[3]
References
- ↑ Hormonotus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 4 November 2014.
- ↑ Kelly, Christopher M.R.; Branch, William R.; Broadley, Donald G.; Barker, Nigel P.; Villet, Martin H. (2011). "Molecular systematics of the African snake family Lamprophiidae Fitzinger, 1843 (Serpentes: Elapoidea), with particular focus on the genera Lamprophis Fitzinger 1843 and Mehelya Csiki 1903". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58 (3): 415–426. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2010.11.010. PMID 21095234.
- ↑ "Hormonotus modestus". https://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species.php?genus=Hormonotus&species=modestus.
Wikidata ☰ Q2242880 entry
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