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Snakes Of Southern Africa.

A visual guide exploring the harmless and venomous snakes found in Southern Africa.

Non-Venomous Snakes

Afrotyphlops bibronii – Bibrons Blind Snake.
Afrotyphlops fornasinii – Fornasini’s blind snake
Afrotyphlops schlegelii – Schlegels Blind Snake
Alopecion guttatum – Spotted Rock Snake
Boaedon capensis – Brown House Snake.
Boaedon mentalis – Bug-eyed House Snake
Dasypeltis inornata – Southern Brown Egg Eater.
Dasypeltis medici – East African Egg Eater.
Dasypeltis scabra – Rhombic Egg Eater.
Dasypeltis loveridgei – Namib Egg Eater
Duberria lutrix – Common Slug Eater.
Duberria variegata – Variegated Slug Eater.
Gracililima nyassae – Black File Snake.
Lamprophis aurora – Aurora House Snake
Lamprophis fiskii – Fisk’s House Snake
Lamprophis fuscus – Yellow Bellied House Snake
Leptotyphlops incognitus – Incognito Thread Snake
Leptotyphlops nigricans – Black Thread Snake.
Leptotyphlops scutifrons – Peters’ Thread Snake
Leptotyphlops scutifrons conjunctus – Thread Snake.
Leptotyphlops sylvicolus – Forest Thread Snake.
Limaformosa capensis – Common File Snake.
Lycodonomorphus inornatus – Olive Snake.
Lycodonomorphus laevissimus – Dusky Bellied-water Snake.
Lycodonomorphus rufulus – Common Brown Water Snake.
Lycophidion capense – Cape Wolf Snake.
Lycophidion pygmaeum – Pygmy Wolf Snake.
Lycophidion variegatum – Variegated wolf snake
Myriopholis longicauda – Long-tailed Thread Snake
Namibiana gracilior – Slender Thread Snake
Namibiana occidentalis – Western Thread Snake.
Philothamnus hoplogaster – South Eastern Green Snake (Green Water Snake)
Philothamnus natalensis – Eastern Natal Green Snake.
Philothamnus occidentalis – Western Natal Green Snake
Philothamnus semivariegatus – Spotted Bush Snake.
Prosymna bivittata – Two-Striped Shovel snout
Prosymna frontalis – Southwestern Shovel-snout
Prosymna janii – Mozambique Shovel Snout.
Prosymna lineata – Lined Shovel Snout
Prosymna stuhlmannii – East African Shovel Snout.
Prosymna sundevalli – Sundevals Shovel Snout.
Pseudaspis cana – Mole Snake.
Python natalensis – Southern African Python.
Indotyphlops braminus – Flower Pot Snake.
Rhinotyphlops lalandei – Delalande’s Beaked Blind Snake
Inyoka swazicus – Swazi Rock Snake.

Venomous Snakes

Amblyodipsas concolor – Natal Purple Gloss Snake.
Amblyodipsas microphthalma microphthalma – Eastern Gloss Snake.
Amblyodipsas polylepis – Common Purple Gloss Snake.
Amblyodipsas ventrimaculata – Kalahari purple-glossed Snake.
Amplorhinus multimaculatus – Many Spotted Reed Snake.
Aparallactus capensis – Black Headed Centipede Eater.
Aspidelaps lubricus lubricus – Cape Coral Snake.
Aspidelaps scutatus fulafula – Eastern Shield Nose Snake
Aspidelaps scutatus scutatus – Common Shield Cobra.
Atractaspis bibronii – Bibrons Stiletto Snake.
Bitis arietans – Puff Adder.
Bitis armata – Southern Adder.
Bitis atropos – Berg Adder.
Bitis caudalis – Horned Adder.
Bitis cornuta – Many Horned Adder
Bitis gabonica – East African Gaboon Adder.
Bitis peringueyi – Peringuey’s Adder.
Bitis rubida – Red Adder
Bitis schneideri – Namqua Dwarf Adder
Bitis xeropaga – Desert Mountain Adder
Causus defilippii – Snouted Night Adder
Causus rhombeatus – Rhombic Night Adder.
Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia – Herald Snake.
Dendroaspis angusticeps – Eastern Green Mamba.
Dendroaspis polylepis – Black Mamba.
Dipsadoboa aulica – Marbled Tree Snake.
Dipsina multimaculata – Dwarf beaked Snake
Dispholidus typus typus – Cape Boomslang.
Dispholidus typus viridis – Common Boomslang.
Elapsoidea sundevalli fitzsimonsi – Fitzsimons Garter Snake.
Elapsoidea sundevalli decosteri – Decosters’ Garter Snake.
Elapsoidea sundevallii longicaudia – Long-Tailed Garter Snake
Elapsoidea sundevallii sundevallii – Sundevall’s Garter Snake
Hemachatus haemachatus – Rhinkals.
Hemirhagerrhis nototaenia – Eastern Bark Snake
Homoroselaps dorsalis – Striped Harlequin Snake.
Homoroselaps lacteus – Spotted Harlequin Snake.
Hydrophis platurus – Yellow-bellied Sea Snake
Macrelaps microlepidotus – Natal Black Snake.
Naja anchietae – Anchieta’s Cobra.
Naja annulifera – Snouted Cobra.
Naja subfulva – Eastern Forest Cobra
Naja mossambica – Mozambique Spitting Cobra
Naja nigricincta woodi – Black Spitting Cobra
Naja nigricincta – Zebra Cobra.
Naja nivea – Cape Cobra.
Psammophylax rhombeatus rhombeatus – Spotted Grass Snake or Spotted Skaapsteker
Psammophylax tritaeniatus – Striped Grass Snake or Striped Skaapsteker.
Psammophis angolensis – Dwarf Sand Snake
Psammophis brevirostris – Short Snouted Grass Snake.
Psammophis crucifer – Cross Marked Grass Snake.
Psammophis leightoni – Cape Sand Snake.
Psammophis mossambicus – Olive Grass Snake.
Psammophis notostictus – Karoo Sand Snake.
Psammophis subtaeniatus – Western Yellow Bellied Sand Snake.
Pythonodipsas carinata – Western Keeled Snake
Telescopus beetzii – Beetz’s Tiger Snake
Telescopus semiannulatus semiannulatus – Eastern Tiger Snake.
Thelotornis capensis capensis – Vine/Twig Snake
Xenocalamus bicolor lineatus – Elongated Quill Snout Snake.
Xenocalamus transvaalensis – Transvaal Quill Snout

REPTILES OF SOUTH AFRICA

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Goggia hexapora - Cederberg Dwarf leaf-toed Gecko.
From Travellers Rest, Western Cape.
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Goggia hexapora - Cederberg Dwarf leaf-toed Gecko. From Travellers Rest, Western Cape. https://www.tyroneping.co.za/geckos/goggia-hexapora-cedarberg-dwarf-leaf-toed-gecko/ #herpsza #nature #wildlife #geckos #animals #herping #wild #rocklands #cederberg

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Duberria lutrix - Common Slug Eater. From Walmer Estate, Western Cape. https://www.tyroneping.co.za/snakes-southern-africa/duberria-lutrix/
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Duberria lutrix - Common Slug Eater. From Walmer Estate, Western Cape. https://www.tyroneping.co.za/snakes-southern-africa/duberria-lutrix/ #herpsza #southafrica #reptiles #snake #animals #nature

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Typhlosaurus caecus - Southern Blind Legless Skink. From Koeberg, Western Cape. https://www.tyroneping.co.za/lizards/southern-blind-legless-skink-typhlosaurus-caecus/
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Typhlosaurus caecus - Southern Blind Legless Skink. From Koeberg, Western Cape. https://www.tyroneping.co.za/lizards/southern-blind-legless-skink-typhlosaurus-caecus/ #herpsza #southafrica #africa #nature #wildlife #skink #reptile #capetown #westcoast

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Strongylopus grayii Clicking Stream Frog. From Noordhoek, Western Cape. https://www.tyroneping.co.za/amphibians-of-southern-africa/strongylopus-grayii/
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Strongylopus grayii Clicking Stream Frog. From Noordhoek, Western Cape. https://www.tyroneping.co.za/amphibians-of-southern-africa/strongylopus-grayii/ #herpsza #southafrica #frogs #nature #animals #noordhoek #herping #winter

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Dasypeltis scabra - Rhombic Egg Eater.
From Koeberg Western Cape.
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Dasypeltis scabra - Rhombic Egg Eater.
From Koeberg Western Cape.
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Dasypeltis scabra - Rhombic Egg Eater. From Koeberg Western Cape. https://www.tyroneping.co.za/snakes-southern-africa/dasypeltis-scabra/ #herpsza #southafrica #africa #nature #capetown #africa #wildlife #nature #snakes #animals

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Acontias meleagris - Cape Legless Skink. From Koeberg, Western Cape. https://www.tyroneping.co.za/lizards/acontias-meleagris/
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Acontias meleagris - Cape Legless Skink. From Koeberg, Western Cape. https://www.tyroneping.co.za/lizards/acontias-meleagris/ #herpsza #lizards #skinks #southafrica #nature #herping #reptiles

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Arthroleptella lightfootii - Cape Peninsula Moss Frog.
From Table Mountain National Park, Western Cape. https://www.tyroneping.co.za/amphibians-of-southern-africa/arthroleptella-lightfootii-cape-peninsula-moss-frog/

Arthroleptella lightfootii - Cape Peninsula Moss Frog.
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Arthroleptella lightfootii - Cape Peninsula Moss Frog.
From Table Mountain National Park, Western Cape. https://www.tyroneping.co.za/amphibians-of-southern-africa/arthroleptella-lightfootii-cape-peninsula-moss-frog/

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Arthroleptella lightfootii - Cape Peninsula Moss Frog. From Table Mountain National Park, Western Cape. https://www.tyroneping.co.za/amphibians-of-southern-africa/arthroleptella-lightfootii-cape-peninsula-moss-frog/

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Bitis arietans - Puff Adder.
From Tamboerskloof, Western Cape.
Highly Venomous
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Bitis arietans - Puff Adder. From Tamboerskloof, Western Cape. Highly Venomous https://www.tyroneping.co.za/snakes-southern-africa/bitis-arietans-puff-adder/ #herpsza #snakes #bitis #puffadder #capetown #southafrica #herping #venomous

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Cordylus niger - Black Girdled Lizard.
From Table Mountain, Western Cape.
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Cordylus niger - Black Girdled Lizard. From Table Mountain, Western Cape. https://www.tyroneping.co.za/lizards/cordylus-niger/ #Herpsza #southafrica #africa #nature #tablemountain #reptile #canon

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