African Shovel-nosed Snake

Scaphiophis albopunctatus Peters, 1870

Also calledAfrikanische Schaufelnasennatter (deu) · Cobra-nariz-de-pá (por) · Grå Krognæsesnog (dan) · Schaufelnatter (deu) · Белопятнистый скафиофис (rus)

First described in: Peters, W. C. H. Eine Mitteilung über neue Amphibien (Hemidactylus, Urosaura, Tropidolepisma, Geophis, Uriechis, Scaphiophis, Hoplocephlaus, Rana, Entomogossus, Cystignathus, Hylodes, Arthroleptis, Phyllobates, Cophomantis) des Königlich-zoologischen Museums.

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”.