Chilorhinophis carpenteri

Chilorhinophis carpenteri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Atractaspididae
Genus:	Chilorhinophis
Species:	C. carpenteri
Binomial name
	Chilorhinophis carpenteri; (Parker, 1927)
Synonyms
	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 mildly venomous snake in the family Atractaspididae.^[2] The species is native to southeastern Africa.

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]

References

^ ^a ^b Species Chilorhinophis butleri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
^ "Chilorhinophis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 5 September 2007.
^ Chilorhinophis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 8 May 2009.
^ Parker HW (1927). "Parallel evolution in some opisthoglyphous snakes, with the description of a new species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 20: 81-86. (Parkerophis carpenteri, new species, p. 85).
^ 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).

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[RDBbutleri-1] Species Chilorhinophis butleri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.

[ITIS-2] "Chilorhinophis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 5 September 2007.

[RDB-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 Series 20: 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).

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