Psammophis subtaeniatus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Psammophiidae
- Genus
- Psammophis
- Species
- Psammophis subtaeniatus
- Scientific Name
- Psammophis subtaeniatus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Psammophis subtaeniatus
Psammophis subtaeniatus, the western yellow-bellied sand snake, is a snake found in northern Southern Africa; more specifically the north of KwaZulu-Natal and further north to Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Gauteng, North West, Limpopo, and Eswatini. It is also found in eastern and northern Botswana, northern Namibia, Angola, and Zambia.
It is also known as the striped sand snake and in Afrikaans as the westelike streeppenssandslang.
The snake is oviparous and lays 4 to 10 eggs in summer. The young are about 20 cm long when they hatch. The snake's venom is not considered harmful and poses no danger to humans.
...Psammophis subtaeniatus in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Streeppenssandslang
- Afrikaans
- Westelike Geelpenssandslang
- Czech
- šípovec pruhoboký
- English
- Stripe-bellied Sand Snake
- English
- Western Yellow-bellied Sand Snake
- German
- Gelbbauch-Sandrennnatter
- Portuguese
- Cobra-da-areia-de-barriga-listrada
- Russian
- Изменчивая песчаная змея
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Psammophis aegyptius
- Psammophis afroccidentalis
- Psammophis angolensis
- Psammophis ansorgii
- Psammophis biseriatus
- Psammophis brevirostris
- Psammophis condanarus
- Psammophis crucifer
- Psammophis elegans
- Psammophis indochinensis
- Psammophis jallae
- Psammophis leightoni
- Psammophis leithii
- Psammophis leopardinus
- Psammophis lineatus
- Psammophis lineolatus
- Psammophis longifrons
- Psammophis mossambicus
- Psammophis notostictus
- Psammophis orientalis
- Psammophis phillipsii
- Psammophis praeornatus
- Psammophis pulcher
- Psammophis punctulatus
- Psammophis rukwae
- Psammophis schokari
- Psammophis sibilans
- Psammophis subtaeniatus
- Psammophis sudanensis
- Psammophis tanganicus
- Psammophis trigrammus
- Psammophis turpanensis
- Psammophis zambiensis