List of snakes of Africa explained

This list of snakes of Africa includes all snakes in the continent of Africa.

• Philothamnus natalensis;
• Echis megalocephalus;
• Echis leucogaster^[1]
• Roman's carpet viper^[1]
• Naja melanoleuca;
• all species of the genus Afrotyphlops;
• Bitis caudalis;
• Bitis peringueyi;
• Bitis heraldica ^[2]
• Dispholidus typus;
• Spitting cobra (Many species);
• Dendroaspis polylepis;
• Vipera monticola^[3]
• Namibiana rostrata;
• Malpolon moilensis;
• Bitis gabonica

• Afrotyphlops schlegelii

• Berg adder

• Amblyodipsas

• Aparallactus lunulatus^[1]
• Bicoloured blind snake

• Amblyodipsas concolor

• Amblyodipsas dimidiata

• Amblyodipsas katangensis

• Amblyodipsas polylepis

^[4]

• Puff adder

• Bitis heraldica

• Bitis nasicornis

• Calabar python

• Damara threadsnake

• Calabresi's blind snake

• Dasypeltis confusa

• Cape cobra

• Dasypeltis scabra

• Cape file snake

• Drewes's worm snake

• Cape wolf snake

• Dwarf water cobra

• Damara threadsnake

• Dasypeltis confusa

• Dasypeltis sahelensis^[1]
• Polemon neuwiedi

• Polemon ater

• Polemon christyi

• Red adder
• Thelotornis kirtlandii^[5]
• all species of the genus Boaedon^[1]
• all species of the genus Prosymna^[1]

Notes and References

1. Hinzoumbe . Clément Kerah . Demba-Kodindo . Israël . (PDF) The snakes of Chad, Results of a field survey and annotated country-wild checklist . Bonn Zoological Bulletin . 62 . 2 . 2020-11-17 . 2190-7307 . 10.20363/BZB-2020.69.2.367 . 367–393 . 2024-11-01.
2. Gonçalves . Francisco Maiato . Braine . Dayne . Bauer . Aaron . Valerio . Hilaria . Ceríaco . Luis Miguel Pires . (PDF) Rediscovery of the Poorly Known Angolan Adder, Bitis heraldica (Bocage, 1889) (Serpentes: Viperidae): New Records, Live Photographs, and First Case History of Envenomation . Herpetological Review . 50 . 2 . 2019-06-22 . 0018-084X . 241–246 . 2024-11-01.
3. Martínez-Freiría . Fernando . Bouazza . Abdellah . Buldai . Jon . Freitas . Inês . Avella . Ignazio . Scaramuzzi . Andrea . Sioumpoura . Katerina . Oliveira . Duarte . Fahd . Soumia . Fieldwork campaigns and citizen science data increase the distributional range of the elusive <em>Vipera monticola</em> in Morocco . Basic and Applied Herpetology . Asociacion Herpetologica Espanola . 37 . 2023-12-30 . 2255-1476 . 10.11160/bah.249 . free . 95–105.
4. Conradie . Werner . Pinto . Pedro Vaz . (PDF) A snake with an appetite for the rare: Amblyodipsas polylepis (Bocage, 1873) feeding on the amphisbaenid Monopeltis luandae Gans, 1976 . Herpetology Notes . 14 . 2021-01-27 . 2071-5773 . 205–207 . 2024-11-01.
5. Maritz . Robin . Conradie . Werner . Sardinha . Celso Inácio . Peto . Alberto . Chechene . Acácio Hélio Domingos . Maritz . Bryan . Ophiophagy and cannibalism in African vine snakes (Colubridae: Thelotornis) . African Journal of Ecology . Wiley . 58 . 3 . 2019-11-08 . 0141-6707 . 10.1111/aje.12702 . 543–547.