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Boaedon lineatus, the striped house snake, is a species of lamprophiid from throughout Africa. This species has a wide range stretching from Tanzania through Central Africa as far as Uganda . They are kept as pets with increasing regularity, often captured and exported for the pet trade.
Boaedon is a genus of African lamprophiids consisting of the "brown" house snakes. The genus was originally described by Duméril but the species contained were reclassified as Lamprophis by Fitzinger in 1843, this taxonomy remained widely accepted until November 2010 when a phylogenetic study was published by C.M.R Kelly et al. who resurrected the Boaedon clade. [1]
The fossil record of snakes is not expansive. [5] Nonetheless, multiple fossilized specimens document the progression of the development of leglessness within the suborder Serpentes. The species of extinct snake Najash rionegrina was first described in 2006, and has been proposed as the earliest branching taxa of the suborder Serpentes. [6]
But one home for sale in Idaho is said to have thousands of slithering snakes living sandwiched between the walls and the siding, making noises in. We heard of the homes infested with bedbugs ...
The alert comes as a stray three and a half feet-long corn snake was found in a wheelie bin in Stoke-on-Trent last week. The surprised resident described how he “jumped and screamed” after ...
Rat snakes can climb trees and walls, looking for bird eggs and frogs. They also eat rodents, which may be the reason they’re slithering inside your house. Same with the Eastern rat snake.
Striped: Striped-phase house snakes greatly resemble the striped house snake species (B. lineatus) in their appearance. They are (reportedly) a locale-specific variant, occurring in the Springbok area of the Northern Cape. With the Springbok area being semi-arid, some keepers prefer to house these snakes with lower ambient humidity. This is ...
"Normally when snakes are in cars they find a really nice little hidey hole and they can stay in for days and not come out, but we were lucky the snake moved along to the back of the car,” he ...