African Egg-eating Snake

Dasypeltis atra Sternfeld, 1912

Also called(Rote) Hochland-Eierschlange (deu) · Schwarze Eierschlange (deu) · vejcožrout černý (ces) · Чёрная яичная змея (rus) · Чёрный яйцеед (rus)

First described in: Sternfeld, R. IV. Zoologie II. Lfg. Reptilia. In: Schubotz., R. (ed.): Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika Expedition 1907- 1908, unter Führung A. Friedrichs, Herzogs zu Mecklenburg.

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”.