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GBIF·2456050speciesAnimalia212 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusDasypeltis
Dasypeltis medici
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IUCN LC · Least concern

East African Egg Eater

Dasypeltis medici Bianconi, 1859

Also calledOos-Afrika-eiervreter (afr) · Ostafrikanische Eierschlange (deu) · vejcožrout rezavý (ces) · Østafrikansk Ægsnog (dan)

First described in: Bianconi, J. J. Specimina Zoologica Mosambicana.

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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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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In the stacks

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Every page naming Dasypeltis medici in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2456050.