Summary ²

Amblyodipsas concolor, or the Natal purple-glossed snake, is a species of venomous rear-fanged snake in the Atractaspididae family.

Range description ³

This species is found in South Africa, from Gauteng and Mpumalanga southwards through the KwaZulu-Natal lowlands to Durban. It is also found in Swaziland (Boycott 1992). It is found between an altitude of 400 and 1,500 m above sea level.

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3. (c) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/34294272

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