Chilorhinophis carpenteri, or the Liwale two-headed snake, is a species of mildly venomous snake in the family Atractaspididae.[2] The species is native to southeastern Africa.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Atractaspididae |
| Genus: | Chilorhinophis |
| Species: | C. carpenteri
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| Binomial name | |
| Chilorhinophis carpenteri (Parker, 1927)
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Geographic range
editC. carpenteri is found in Mozambique and southeastern Tanzania.[3]
Taxonomy
editC. carpenteri was originally named Parkerophis carpenteri. Some herpetologists, including Battersby, consider C. carpenteri to be a synonym of C. butleri.[1]
Etymology
editThe specific name, carpenteri, honors the type specimen's collector, British physician and entomologist Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter.[4][5]
References
edit- ^ a b Species Chilorhinophis butleri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ "Chilorhinophis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 5 September 2007.
- ^ Chilorhinophis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 8 May 2009.
- ^ Parker HW (1927). "Parallel evolution in some opisthoglyphous snakes, with the description of a new species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 20: 81-86. (Parkerophis carpenteri, new species, p. 85).
- ^ 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. (Chilorhinophis carpenteri, p. 48).
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