Description |
Body cylindrical, slender, with a fairly long tail.
Oviparous, 6-10 eggs at a time.
Size average (45 cm), maximum 60 cm. Colour: above yellowish to pale
olive. Head above marked with four black, tranverse bars; anterior bar
running from eye to eye, followed by two bars marking the centre and
back of the head respectively; fourth bar marking the nape of the neck.
Thereafter, the body is marked with irregular black blotches and
crossbars for about a quarter of the length before fading out.
The posterior section, from about the centre of the body above, is
marked with a narrow, black vertebral line and a similar line on each
side, extending to the tip of the tail.
Snout is blackish above.
Below, whitish to yellowish, sometimes with irregulaar black motting.
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Distribution |
Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory
Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, S Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African
Republic (1)
Type locality: “Walo, Senegal” (1)
gribinguiensis: Central African Republic; Type locality: “Gribingui
Region, French Equatorial Africa” (1)

Map legend:
- Region according to the TDWG
standard, not a precise distribution map.
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