habitat_narrative

Terrestrial

In southern Africa, this species restricted to the subtropical northeastern coastal plain where it occupies moist coastal forests and surrounding moist grasslands and thickets; often found in the ecotone between forests and grassland (Branch 1998, Alexander and Marais 2007, Phelps 2009). The habitat has been described as 'forest-thicket-grassland mosaic' (Perrin and Bodbijl 2001). According to Warner (2009) these snakes occur mainly in coastal dune forest which occurs as a strip of up to a few kilometres wide along the coastline and they occasionally move onto frontal dunes near the seashore (Phelps 2003). However, the extent of inland records across sub-Saharan Africa strongly suggest that they are not mainly in coastal dune forest.