Boaedon capensis Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854 is a animal in the Lamprophiidae family, order null, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.
Boaedon capensis Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854
Boaedon capensis (Cape/brown house snake) is a non-venomous lamprophiid native to southern Africa, reclassified from genus Lamprophis to Boaedon.
Boaedon capensis, commonly called the Cape house snake or brown house snake, is a species of lamprophiid snake. Its confirmed distribution includes Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa (spanning from KwaZulu-Natal to the Western Cape), Zambia, and Zimbabwe. This is a non-venomous species. It was originally classified within the genus Lamprophis, and has since been reclassified into the genus Boaedon.
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Lycodonomorphus inornatus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)
Boaedon fuliginosus (Boie, 1827)
Lycophidion capense (Smith, 1831)
Gracililima nyassae (Günther, 1888)
Lycodonomorphus rufulus (Lichtenstein, 1823)
Lamprophis aurora (Linnaeus, 1758)
Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer
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