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    Species Accepted

    Dasypeltis gansi Trape & Mané, 2006

    Gans' Egg Eater

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      6 results
      Gans' Egg Eater English
      Gansi-Eierschlange German
      Gans’ Egg Eater English
      Gelbbraune Eierschlange German
      Savanne-ægsnog Danish
      Westafrikanische Eierschlange German

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      33 results
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      Beolens, B., & Michael Watkins, a. M. G. (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA.
      Bamogo, Rabila; Achille S. Nikièma, Lassane Koala, Massamba Thiam, Doubata D.M. Coulibaly, Youssouph Mané, Abdoul A. Millogo, Youssouph Diatta, and Roch K. Dabiré. (2025). Characterization of Human-snake Encounters in the Houet District of West Burkina Faso. Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 20 (2):
      TRAPE Jean-François and Youssouph MANÉ. (2006). Le genre Dasypeltis Wagler (Serpentes : Colubridae) en Afrique de l’Ouest : description de trois espèces et d’une sous-espèce nouvelles. Bull. Soc. Herp. France 119: 27-56.
      Göthel, & Helmut. (2015). Afrikanische Eierschlangen im Terrarium. Draco 16 (61): 54-61.
      TRAPE, JEAN-FRANÇOIS, & CELLOU BALDÉ. (2014). A checklist of the snake fauna of Guinea, with taxonomic changes in the genera Philothamnus and Dipsadoboa (Colubridae) and a comparison with the snake fauna of some other West African countries. Zootaxa 3900 (3): 301–338.
      Böhme, Wolfgang, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Christian Brede, & Philipp Wagner. (2011). The reptiles (Testudines, Squamata, Crocodylia) of the forested southeast of the Republic Guinea (Guinée forestière), with a country-wide checklist. Bonn Zoological Bulletin 60 (1): 35-61.
      Bates, M. F., & Ineich, I. (2012). A new size record for the West African egg-eating snake Dasypeltis gansi Trape & Mané, 2006, with new distribution records. Navors. Nas. Mus., Bloemfontein 28 93): 41.
      Trape, Jean-François, & Youssouph Mané. (2017). The snakes of Mali. Bonn Zoological Bulletin 66 (2): 107–133.
      BAUER, AARON M. (2010). Reminiscences of Carl Gans. Herpetological Review 41 (2): 147-148.

      Citation

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