Rodhain's Purple-glossed Snake articles

Distribution

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Continent: Africa
Distribution: S Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire)
Type locality: Lomami, Katanga, Congo-Kinshasa.

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Amblyodipsas rodhaini, commonly known as Rodhain's purple-glossed snake, is a species of venomous rear-fanged snake in the family Atractaspididae.^[2]^[3] The species is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.^[1]^[2]

Both the specific name, rodhaini, and the common name, Rodhain's purple-glossed snake, are in honor of Belgian physician and zoologist Jérome Alphonse Hubert Rodhain (1876–1956).^[4]

A. rodhaini is oviparous.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Kusamba, C. (2021). "Amblyodipsas rodhaini". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T176272A126100413. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T176272A126100413.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Amblyodipsas rodhaini at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 20 October 2018.
^ "Amblyodipsas rodhaini (de Witte, 1930)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Amblyodipsas rodhaini, p. 224).

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Amblyodipsas rodhaini, commonly known as Rodhain's purple-glossed snake, is a species of venomous rear-fanged snake in the family Atractaspididae. The species is endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.