Chilorhinophis carpenteri

Species of snake

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[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 mildly venomous snake in the family Atractaspididae.[2] The species is native to southeastern Africa.

## Geographic range

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C. carpenteri is found in Mozambique and southeastern Tanzania.[3]

## Taxonomy

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C. carpenteri was originally named Parkerophis carpenteri. Some herpetologists, including Battersby, consider C. carpenteri to be a synonym of C. butleri.[1]

## Etymology

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The specific name, carpenteri, honors the type specimen's collector, British physician and entomologist Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter.[4][5]

## References

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1. ^ a b 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 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).

Taxon identifiers

Chilorhinophis carpenteri|

* Wikidata: Q2710154
* EoL: 795401
* GBIF: 2472583
* iNaturalist: 116520
* IRMNG: 10366016
* ITIS: 700373

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