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  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusDasypeltis
Dasypeltis palmarum
Marius Burger (CC0) · Wikimedia Commons. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.
IUCN LC · Least concern

Palm Egg Eater

Dasypeltis palmarum (Leach, 1818)

Also calledPalmen-Eierschlange (deu)

First described in: Leach, W. E. in Tuckey, Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2456038.