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    Species Accepted

    Lamprophis aurora (Linnaeus, 1758)

    Aurora House Snake

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      9 results
      Aurora House Snake English
      Aurora Snake English
      Aurora-Hausschlange German
      Aurora-huisslang Afrikaans
      Aurora-nagslang Afrikaans
      Auroraslang Afrikaans
      Night Snake English
      Будинкова змія Аврора Ukrainian
      Домовая змея-аврора Russian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      33 results
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      Mattison, & Chris. (2007). The New Encyclopedia of Snakes. Princeton University Press.
      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.
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      Tiutenko, A., Koch, C., Pabijan, M., & Zinenko, O. (2022). Generic affinities of African house snakes revised: a new genus for Boodon erlangeri (Serpentes: Elapoidea: Lamprophiidae: Lamprophiinae). Salamandra, 58(4), 235-262.
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      Kelly, Christopher M.R.; William R. Branch, Donald G. Broadley, Nigel P. Barker, Martin H. Villet. (2011). Molecular systematics of the African snake family Lamprophiidae Fitzinger, 1843 (Serpentes: Elapoidea), with particular focus on the genera Lamprophis Fitzinger 1843 and Mehelya Csiki 1903. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 58(3): 415-426.

      Citation

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