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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Eastern Forest Egg-eater, East African Egg Eater
G: Ostafrikanische Eierschlange (lamuensis: Östliche O.E.) 
SynonymDasypeltis medici medici (BIANCONI 1859)
Dipsas Medici BIANCONI 1859
Dasypeltis palmarum PETERS 1878 (not of LEACH!)
Dasypeltis scaber var. fasciolata PETERS 1868: 451
Dasypeltis elongata MOCQUARD 1888: 131
Dasypeltis scabra var. bianconii BOETTGER 1893: 132
Dasypeltis scabra var. F BOULENGER 1894 (part.)
Dasypeltis scaber UTHMÖLLER 1934 (part.)
Dasypeltis scaber LOVERIDGE 1936 (part.)
Dasypeltis scaber SCORTECCI 1939: 276 (part.)
Dasypeltis scaber medici LOVERIDGE 1939 (part.)
Dasypeltis medici lamuensis GANS 1957
Dasypeltis medici medici — RASMUSSEN 1981: 180
Dasypeltis medici lamuensis — LANZA 1988
Dasypeltis medici lamuensis — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 32
Dasypeltis medici medici — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 32
Dasypeltis medici — BROADLEY et al. 2003: 231
Dasypeltis medici — WALLACH et al. 2014: 211
Dasypeltis medici medici — BATES et al. 2014: 411
Dasypeltis medici lamuensis — GÖTHEL 2015
Dasypeltis medici — BATES & BROADLEY 2018: 8
Dasypeltis medici — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 519 
DistributionS Kenya, Tanzania, N/C Mozambique, Malawi, NE Zimbabwe, Somalia, Zambia, NE Republic of South Africa (Kwazulu-Natal), Swaziland

lamuensis: coastal Somalia, south through Kenya to NE Tanzania at Mount Kilimanjaro and Moshi; Type locality: Lamu Island, Kenya.

Type locality: Mozambique; probably Inhambane (fide BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMB 5737 [Dasypeltis scaber var. fasciolata PETERS 1868]
Holotype: MCZ 40581 [lamuensis] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (3276 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymy after GANS 1957 and BATES & BROADLEY 2018 who synonymized the subspecies lamuensis with medici.

Distribution: see map in GÖTHEL 2015: 19, BATES & BROADLEY 2018: 12 (Fig. 3).

Habitat. Coastal and montane forest and savannah at elevations from sea level to about 2500 m on Mount Warges (Kenya). In southern Africa it occurs in lowland evergreen forest (Broadley 1990).

Sympatry. Sympatric with D. scabra at Belet Amin (Somalia), Kilifi (Kenya), and Amani, Dodoma, Morogoro and Zanzibar (Tanzania); sympatric with D. atra at Nyambene Hills (Kenya) and Moshi (Tanzania); sympatric with both of these species at Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania (BATES & BROADLEY 2018). 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Michele Medici (1782-1859), Emeritus Professor of Physiology at Universita di Bologna, Italy. 
References
  • Bates, M.F. & D.G. Broadley 2018. A revision of the egg-eating snakes of the genus Dasypeltis Wagler (Squamata: Colubridae: Colubrinae) in north-eastern Africa and south-western Arabia, with descriptions of three new species. Indago 34 (1): 1-95 - get paper here
  • Bates, M.F.; Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M.; Burger, M., Marais, J.; Alexander, G.J. & de Villliers, M.S. (eds.) 2014. Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria, 512 pp.
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  • Boettger, O. 1893. Uebersicht der von Prof. C. Keller anlässlich der Ruspolischen Expedition nach den Somaliländern gesammelten Reptilien und Batrachier. (Schluss). Zool. Anz. 16 (417): 129- 132. - get paper here
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