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Madagascar Cat-eyed Snake (
Madagascarophis colubrinus
)
Madagascar Cat-eyed Snake (
Madagascarophis colubrinus
)
Madagascar Cat-eyed Snake (
Madagascarophis colubrinus
)
Madagascar Cat-eyed Snake (
Madagascarophis colubrinus
)
Class
:
Reptilia
Family
:
Lamprophiidae
Common Name
:
Madagascar Cat-eyed Snake
Genus
:
Madagascarophis
Species Name
:
colubrinus
About The Madagascar Cat-eyed Snake
This snake is endemic to Madagascar where it is distributed mainly in the arid southwest of the island, but it also occurs as far inland as the high plateau (e.g., Antoetra, Andringitra, Ranomafana) (H. Rakotondravony and M. Vences pers. comms. January 2011), an area of nearly 205,000 km
.
Rights Holder
: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Bibliographic Citation
: Vences, M. 2011.
Madagascarophis meridionalis
. In: IUCN 2014 . IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1 . <
www.iucnredlist.org
>
Trips Where Observed
Madagascar
Member Lifelists
Africa
World
Sites Where Observed
Location
Date
Notes
Ankarafantsika Nature Reserve, Madagascar
11/19/2017
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