Crotaphopeltis tornieri

Crotaphopeltis tornieri is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Africa.

Crotaphopeltis tornieri
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Crotaphopeltis
Species:	C. tornieri
Binomial name
Crotaphopeltis tornieri (F. Werner, 1908)
Synonyms[2]
Leptodira tornieri F. Werner, 1908 Leptodeira tornieri — Barbour & Amaral, 1927 Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia tornieri — Barbour & Loveridge, 1928 Crotaphopeltis tornieri — Broadley, 1968 Crotaphopeltis tornieri — Wallach et al., 2014

Etymology

The specific name, tornieri, is in honor of German zoologist Gustav Tornier.[3]

Geographic range

C. tornieri is found in Malawi and Tanzania.[2]

References

1. "Crotaphopeltis tornieri ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015. 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2016.old-form url, |volume= / |date= mismatch
2. "Crotaphopeltis tornieri ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
3. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Crotaphopeltis tornieri, p. 266).

External links

• Species Crotaphopeltis tornieri at The Reptile Database

Further reading

• Werner F (1908). "Ergebnisse der mit Subvention aus der Erbschaft Treitl unternommenen zoologischen Forschungreise Dr. Franz Werner's nach dem ägyptischen Sudan und Nord-Uganda. XII. Die Reptilien und Amphibien ". Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Wissenschaftliche Klasse 116: 1823–1926. (Leptodira tornieri, new species, p. 1876). (in German).