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    Species Accepted

    Micrelaps vaillanti (Mocquard, 1888)

    Black-headed Micrelaps

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      4 results
      Black-headed Micrelaps English
      Boettger's Two-headed Snake English
      Somali Two-headed Snake English
      維氏微蛇 Chinese

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      27 results
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      Loveridge, A. (1956). On snakes collected in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by J.S. Owen, Esq. Sudan Notes Rec. 36: 37-56 [1955].
      http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/search.php?genus=Micrelaps&species=boettgeri&submit=Search
      Sternfeld, R. (1908). Neue und ungenügend bekannte afrikanische Schlangen. S. Ber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin, 4: 92-95.
      Angel, & Fernand. (1925). Résultats Scientifiques. Vertebrata. Reptiles et Batraciens. [Mabuia (Mabuiopsis) jeanneli, Lygosoma graueri quinquedigitata, Ablepharus massaiensis]. In: Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel En Afrique Orientale (1911-1912). - Paris, 2: 1-63.
      Spawls, S.; Howell, K.; Drewes, R.C. & Ashe, J. (2002). A field guide to the reptiles of East Africa. Academic Press, 543 Pp. [Reviews in HR 34: 396 and Afr. J. Herp. 51; 147].
      Rasmussen, J. B. (2002). A review of the African members of the genus Micrelaps Boettger 1880 (Serpentes Atractaspididae). Tropical Zoology 15: 71-87.
      Spawls, S., & Branch, B. (2020). The Dangerous Snakes of Africa. Bloomsbury, London, 336 Pp.
      Scortecci, G. (1929). Primo contributo alla conoscenza dei Rettili e degli Anfibi della Somalia italiana. Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. 68: 245-279.
      Sternfeld, R. (1910). Neue Schlangen aus Kamerun, Abessynien und Deutsch-Ostafrika. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 5: 67-70.

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