Summary ¹

Amblyodipsas ventrimaculata, or the Kalahari purple-glossed snake, is a species of venomous rear-fanged snake in the Atractaspididae family. It is endemic to Namibia, Botswana, northern Zimbabwe, and western Zambia.

Range description ²

This species is a southern African species, found in Botswana, adjacent northern Namibia to western Zimbabwe and north to Zambia. Two specimens of this species have also been found near Vaalwater in the Waterberg district of Limpopo, South Africa (Egan 2006).

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