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Plumbeous Centipede Eater

Aparallactus lunulatus

Potentially dangerous

Classification

Aparallactus lunulatus, or the reticulated centipede-eater, is a species of mildly venomous rear-fanged snake in the family Atractaspididae, which is endemic to Africa. Geographic range It is found in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, the Republic of South Africa, Eswatini, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana to Eritrea, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Somalia, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, Botswana, and Tanzania. Description Dorsally it is olive or pale brown, with each scale edged with blackish, giving the appearance of dark netting, to which the common name, "reticulated",…

Distribution

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