Common Brown Water Snake
Lycodonomorphus rufulus
Summary 7
The common brown water snake (Lycodonomorphus rufulus) is a species of nonvenomous, South African, colubrid snake.
Distribution 8
Continent: Africa
Distribution: Zimbabwe, S Mozambique, Republic of South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Natal, Botswana
Type locality: Africa australis =South Africa mlanjensis: Type. MCZ 51050, an adult male from Ruo River, Mlanje Mountain, Nyasaland. Collected by Arthur Loveridge, April 1, 1949. Paratypes. M.C.Z. Nos. 51049 and a duplicate now in British Museum (N.H.), being two males from a stream near Nswadzi River, Cholo Mountain, Nyasaland. Collected on 16 and 22, April, 1949. Also an adult female (British Museum, No. 34.2.1.27), from Zomba, Nyasaland.
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