Common Egg-eater

Common Egg-eater

Taxobox
name = Common Egg-eater



image_width = 200px
image_caption = A common egg-eater after swallowing an egg
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Colubridae
genus = "Dasypeltis"
spexies = "D. scabra"
binomial = "Dasypeltis scabra"

Common Egg-eater ("Dasypeltis scabra") is a snake species found in Africa south of Sahara. Also called the Rhombic Egg-eater.


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