Biology:Eastern vine snake
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Short description: Species of snake
| Eastern vine snake | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Genus: | Thelotornis |
| Species: | T. mossambicanus
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| Binomial name | |
| Thelotornis mossambicanus (Bocage, 1895)
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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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 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).
Wikidata ☰ Q3523551 entry
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