Dasypeltis inornata SMITH, 1849
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Dasypeltis inornata
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| Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Southern Brown Egg Eater G: Südafrikanische Eierschlange oder Braune Eierschlange |
| Synonym | Dasypeltis inornatus SMITH 1849: 73 Rachiodon inornatus — DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 498 Dasypeltis inornatus — FITZSIMONS 1946 Dasypeltis inornata — BOYCOTT 1992 Dasypeltis inornata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 210 Dasypeltis inornata — STANDER 2023: 264 |
| Distribution | Republic of South Africa (Natal, SE Cape), Eswatini (Swaziland) Type locality: “south-central districts of the Cape Colony, and also in Kaffirland” [= Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu Natal provinces, South Africa]. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Type: BMNH 1946.1.2.47 (and possibly additional specimens). |
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| Comment | Distribution: see map in GÖTHEL 2015: 19, Bates et al. 2014: 410. Habitat: partly arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). Although the range of the Spotted Egg-eater (Dasypeltis scaber scaber) overlaps that of the Brown Egg-eater (D. inornatus), and the two forms are often found even in the same localities, there is no evidence of their interbreeding (Fitzsimons 1946: 380). |
| Etymology | Presumably named after the Latin inornatus (unadorned) in reference to the relatively plain coloration or scalation. |
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