Rationale
(Changed due to Same category and criteria)
Has a restricted range in South Africa and Eswatini (Swaziland) but is common elsewhere and is not threatened. Occurs in three protected areas in South Africa: iSimangaliso Wetland Park, Ndumo and Tembe Game Reserves and should be well protected in these areas (Bates et al. 2014).
Distribution
In South Africa, this species occurs from St. Lucia in northeastern KwaZulu-Natal Province northwards into Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe and Tanzania to south eastern Kenya (Broadley 1990, Branch 1998, Spawls et al . 2002, Bates et al. 2014).
[@book{612,
address = {Pretoria},
author = {Bates, M.F., Branch, W.R., Bauer, A.M., Burger, M., Marais, J., Alexander, G.J. and de Villiers, M.S.},
publisher = {Suricata 1. South African National Biodiversity Institute},
title = {Atlas and Red List of the Reptiles of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland},
year = {2014}
}
,@book{2817,
address = {Cape Town},
author = {Branch, W.R.},
publisher = {Struik Publishers},
title = {Field Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Second Edition},
year = {1998}
}
,@book{2817,
address = {Cape Town},
author = {Marais, J.},
publisher = {Struik},
title = {A Complete Guide to the Snakes of Southern Africa},
year = {2004}
}
,@book{10242,
address = {Parklands, South Africa},
author = {Broadley, D.G.},
publisher = {Jonathan Ball and Ad. Donker Publishers},
title = {FitzSimons' Snakes of Southern Africa},
year = {1990}
}
,@book{110159014,
address = {San Diego, San Francisco, New York, Boston, London},
author = {Spawls, S., Howell, K.M., Drewes, R.C. and Ashe, J.},
publisher = {Academic Press, Elsevier Science},
title = {A Field Guide to the Reptiles of East Africa},
year = {2002}
}
,@article{13265127,
author = {Bates, M.F. and Broadley, D.G.},
journal = {Indago},
number = {1},
pages = {1--95},
title = {A revision of the egg-eating snakes of the genus <i>Dasypeltis</i> Wagler (Squamata: Colubridae: Boigini) in north-eastern Africa and south-western Arabia, with descriptions of three new species},
volume = {34},
year = {2018}
}
,@article{13265127,
author = { Bates, M.F. and Broadley, D.G. },
journal = {Indago},
number = {1},
pages = {1--95},
title = {A revision of the egg-eating snakes of the genus <i>Dasypeltis</i> Wagler (Squamata: Colubridae: Colubrinae) in north-eastern Africa and south-western Arabia, with descriptions of three new species},
volume = {34},
year = {2018}
}
,]
