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    Species Accepted

    Lycodonomorphus whytii (Boulenger, 1897)

    Whyte's Water Snake
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Lycodonomorphus
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

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      Cobra-d'água-de-whyte Portuguese
      Whyte se Waterslang Afrikaans
      Whyte's Water Snake English
      Whyte's Water-Snake English
      Белогубый волкозубый уж Russian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      19 results
      Boulenger, G. A. (1897). A list of the reptiles and batrachians collected in northern Nyasssaland by Mr. Alex Whyte, F.Z.S., and presented to the British Museum by Sir Harry H. Johnston, K.C.B., with descriptions of new species. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1897: 800-803.
      FitzSimons, V. (1963). A new subspecies of water-snake from Kruger National Park. Koedoe 7: 26-29.
      Rasmussen, J. B. (2004). A review of Whyte’s Water-snake, Lycodonomorphus whytii (Serpentes: Colubridae: Lamprophiinae). African Journal of Herpetology 53 (2):155-162.
      Pietersen, Darren, Verburgt, Luke, Davies, & John. (2021). Snakes and other reptiles of Zambia and Malawi. Struik Nature / Penguin Random House South Africa, 376 Pp., ISBN 9781775847373.
      Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy. (2014). Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue]. Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 Pp.
      Broadley, D. G., & HOWELL, K. M. (1991). A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70.
      Pienaar, & Uys de Villiers. (1978). The Reptile Fauna of the Kruger National Park. Pretoria: National Parks Board of South Africa, I-Vii, 222 S.
      Spawls, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. (2002). A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 Pp. [Reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147].
      Tiutenko, A., A. Maliuk & C. Koch. (2025). Generic affinities of African house snakes revised: a new genus for Lamprophis inornatus (Serpentes: Lamprophiidae: Lamprophiinae: Boaedontini). Salamandra 61 (2): 215-239.
      Branch, William R. (1993). A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 144 S.

      Citation

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