Vital Statistics
- Latin Name
- Psammophis Mossambicus
- Length_F
- 1 285 mm
- Length_M
- 1 451 mm
- Order
- Testudines
- Family
- Colubridae
- Description
- A large, robust snake with a non-flattened snout and a long tail. The back is olive-brown (paler towards the tail), sometimes with black-edged scales, forming thin black lines or with scattered black flecks on the forebody. The belly is white-yellow.
- Class
- Reptilia
- Distribution
- Northern part of the region, extending south along the Kwa-Zulu Natal coast. Elsewhere, to Kenya.
- Breeding
- The female lays 10 - 30 eggs in dead leaves, etc., in midsummer. They hatch in about 65 days.
- Venom
- Its venom may cause nausea and pain.
- Diet
- It occasionally eats other snakes, even young black mambas.
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