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    Species Accepted

    Scaphiophis albopunctatus Peters, 1870

    African Hook-nosed Snake
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Scaphiophis
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      African Hook-nosed Snake English
      African Shovel-nosed Snake English
      Afrikanische Schaufelnasennatter German
      Cobra-nariz-de-pá Portuguese
      Gray Hook-nosed Snake English
      Grey Hook-nosed Snake English
      Grå Krognæsesnog Danish
      Schaufelnatter German
      Белопятнистый скафиофис Russian

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Günther, A. (1888). Contribution to the knowledge of snakes of tropical Africa. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 1: 322-335.
      Hughes, B. (2013). Snakes of Bénin, West Africa. Bull. Soc. Herp. France 144: 101-159.
      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.
      Essex, R. (1929). A note on three burrowing reptiles. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (10) 1: 268-270.
      Aylmer, G. (1922). The Snakes of Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone Studies 5: 7-37.
      Broadley, D. G., & HOWELL, K. M. (1991). A check list of the reptiles of Tanzania, with synoptic keys. Syntarsus 1: 1—70.
      Schmidt, K. P. (1923). Contributions to the herpetology of the Belgian Congo based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Part II. Snakes, with field notes by Herbert Lang and James P. Chapin. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 49 (1): 1-146.
      Peters, W. C. H. (1870). Eine Mitteilung über neue Amphibien (Hemidactylus, Urosaura, Tropidolepisma, Geophis, Uriechis, Scaphiophis, Hoplocephlaus, Rana, Entomogossus, Cystignathus, Hylodes, Arthroleptis, Phyllobates, Cophomantis) des Königlich-zoologischen Museums. Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1870: 641-652.
      Pitman, C. R. S. (1974). A guide to the snakes of Uganda. Codicote, Wheldon & Wesley, L., 290 Pp.

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