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Dwarf Egg Eater

Dasypeltis loveridgei Mertens, 1954

Also calledZwerg-Eierschlange (deu)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Recorded from
NW Republic of South Africa, SW Namibia
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References

  • Bates MF. (2023). The enigmatic Namibian egg-eating snake Dasypeltis loveridgei Mertens, 1954 (Squamata: Colubridae): A valid species recovered from synonymy. Bonn Zoological Bulletin 72 (2): 163–184.
  • Göthel, & Helmut. (2015). Die Pazifisten unter den Schlangen – Afrikanische Eierschlangen der Gattung Dasypeltis. Draco 16 (61): 6-21.
  • Broadley, D. G. (1980). Obituaries on African Herpetologists- Loveridge, A. 1891 - 1980. J. Herp. Assoc. Africa (23): 2-2.
  • Bates, M.F. & D.G. Broadley. (2018). A revision of the egg-eating snakes of the genus Dasypeltis Wagler (Squamata: Colubridae: Colubrinae) in north-eastern Africa and south-western Arabia, with descriptions of three new species. Indago 34 (1): 1-95.
  • Göthel, & Helmut. (2015). Die Eierschlangenarten Afrikas. Draco 16 (61): 78-92.
  • Mertens, R. (1954). Neue Schlangenrassen aus Südwest- und Südafrika. Zool. Anz. 152: 213-219.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.