Snake Species

Bibron’s Blind Snake (Afrotyphlops bibronii)
Fornasini’s Blind Snake (Afrotyphlops fornasinii)
Zambezi Blind Snake (Afrotyphlops mucruso)
Slender Blind Snake (Afrotyphlops obtusus)
Schlegel’s Blind Snake (Afrotyphlops schlegelii)

Kunene Coral Snake (Aspidelaps lubricus cowlesi)
Cape Coral Snake (Aspidelaps lubricus lubricus)
Eastern Shield-nose Snake (Aspidelaps scutatus fulafula)
Intermediate Shield-nose Snake (Aspidelaps scutatus intermedius)
Speckled Shield-nose Snake (Aspidelaps scutatus scutatus)

Bibron’s Stiletto Snake (Atractaspis bibronii)
Eastern Congo Stiletto Snake (Atractaspis congica orientalis)
Beaked Stiletto Snake (Atractaspis duerdeni)

Albany Adder (Bitis albanica)
Puff Adder (Bitis arietans arietans)
Southern Adder (Bitis armata)
Berg Adder (Bitis atropos)
Horned Adder (Bitis caudalis)
Many-horned Adder (Bitis cornuta)
Gaboon Adder (Bitis gabonica)
Plain Mountain Adder (Bitis inornata)
Péringuey’s Adder (Bitis peringueyi)
Red Adder (Bitis rubida)
Namaqua Dwarf Adder (Bitis schneideri)
Desert Mountain Adder (Bitis xeropaga)

Brown House Snake (Boaedon capensis)
Zambezi House Snake (Boaedon fradei)
Bug-eyed House Snake (Boaedon mentalis)
Variegated House Snake (Boaedon variegatus)

Snouted Night Adder (Causus defilippii)
Common Night Adder (Causus rhombeatus)

Gerard’s Burrowing Snake (Chilorhinophis gerardi gerardi)

Barotse Water Snake (Crotaphopeltis barotseensis)
Herald Snake (Crotaphopeltis hotamboeia)

Southern Brown Egg-eater (Dasypeltis inornata)
Namibia Egg-eater (Dasypeltis loveridgei)
East African Egg-eater (Dasypeltis medici)
Common Egg-eater (Dasypeltis scabra)

Green Mamba (Dendroaspis angusticeps)
Black Mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis)

Marbled Tree Snake (Dipsadoboa aulica)
Broadley’s Cross-barred Tree Snake (Dipsadoboa flavida broadleyi)

Dwarf Beaked Snake (Dipsina multimaculata)

Boomslang (Dispholidus typus )

Common Slug-eater (Duberria lutrix)
Zimbabwe Slug-eater (Duberria rhodesiana)
Variegated Slug-eater (Duberria variegata)

Boulenger’s Garter Snake (Elapsoidea boulengeri)
Günther’s Garter Snake (Elapsoidea guentheri)
Angola Garter Snake (Elapsoidea semiannulata semiannulata)
De Coster’s Garter Snake (Elapsoidea sundevallii decosteri)
Kalahari Garter Snake (Elapsoidea sundevallii fitzsimonsi)
Long-tailed Garter Snake (Elapsoidea sundevallii longicauda)
Highveld Garter Snake (Elapsoidea sundevallii media)
Sundevall’s Garter Snake (Elapsoidea sundevallii sundevallii)

Black File Snake (Gracililima nyassae)

Rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus)

Eastern Bark Snake (Hemirhagerrhis nototaenia)
Viperine Rock Snake (Hemirhagerrhis viperinus)

Striped Harlequin Snake (Homoroselaps dorsalis)
Spotted Harlequin Snake (Homoroselaps lacteus)

Yellow-bellied Sea Snake (Hydrophis platura)

Flowerpot Snake (Indotyphlops braminus)

Swazi Rock Snake (Inyoka swazicus)

Aurora House Snake (Lamprophis aurora)
Fisk’s House Snake (Lamprophis fiskii)
Yellow-bellied House Snake (Lamprophis fuscus)
Spotted Rock Snake (Lamprophis guttatus)

Distant’s Thread Snake (Leptotyphlops distanti)
Incognito Thread Snake (Leptotyphlops incognitus)
Jacobsen’s Thread Snake (Leptotyphlops jacobseni)
Black Thread Snake (Leptotyphlops nigricans)
Pungwe Thread Snake (Leptotyphlops pungwensis)
Eastern Cape Thread Snake (Leptotyphlops scutifrons conjunctus)
Peters’ Thread Snake (Leptotyphlops scutifrons scutifrons)
Forest Thread Snake (Leptotyphlops sylvicolus)
Tello’s Thread Snake (Leptotyphlops telloi)

Common File Snake (Limaformosa capensis)
Angola File Snake (Limaformosa vernayi)

Bangweulu Swamp Snake (Limnophis bangweolicus)

Olive Snake (Lycodonomorphus inornatus)
Dusky-bellied Water Snake (Lycodonomorphus laevissimus)
Mulanje Water Snake (Lycodonomorphus mlanjensis)
Floodplain Water Snake (Lycodonomorphus obscuriventris)
Brown Water Snake (Lycodonomorphus rufulus)

Common Wolf Snake (Lycophidion capense capense)
Hellmich’s Wolf Snake (Lycophidion hellmichi)
Spotted Wolf Snake (Lycophidion multimaculatum)
Namibia Wolf Snake (Lycophidion namibianum)
Dwarf Wolf Snake (Lycophidion nanum)
Pygmy Wolf Snake (Lycophidion pygmaeum)
Bazaruto Wolf Snake (Lycophidion semiannule)
Variegated Wolf Snake (Lycophidion variegatum)

Semiornate Snake (Meizodon semiornatus semiornatus)

Natal Black Snake (Macrelaps microlepidotus)

Cream-spotted Mountain Snake (Montaspis gilvomaculata)

Kunene Racer (Mopanveldophis zebrinus)

Long-tailed Thread Snake (Myriopholis longicauda)

Anchieta’s Cobra (Naja anchietae)
Snouted Cobra (Naja annulifera)
Mozambique Spitting Cobra (Naja mossambica)
Zebra Cobra (Naja nigricincta nigricincta)
Black Spitting Cobra (Naja nigricincta woodi)
Black-necked Spitting Cobra (Naja nigricollis)
Cape Cobra (Naja nivea)
Brown Forest Cobra (Naja subfulva)

Slender Thread Snake (Namibiana gracilior)
Damara Thread Snake (Namibiana labialis)
Western Thread Snake (Namibiana occidentalis)

Olive Marsh Snake (Natriciteres olivacea)
Forest Marsh Snake (Natriciteres sylvatica)

Angola Green Snake (Philothamnus angolensis)
Green Water Snake (Philothamnus hoplogaster)
Large-eyed Green Snake (Philothamnus macrops)
Eastern Natal Green Snake (Philothamnus natalensis)
Western Natal Green Snake (Philothamnus occidentalis)
Ornate Green Snake (Philothamnus ornatus)
Spotted or Variegated Bush Snake (Philothamnus semivariegatus)

Floodplain Viper (Proatheris superciliaris)

Angolan Shovel-snout (Prosymna angolensis)
Two-striped Shovel-snout (Prosymna bivittata)
South-western Shovel-snout (Prosymna frontalis)
Jan’s Shovel-snout (Prosymna janii)
Lined Shovel-snout (Prosymna lineata)
East African Shovel-snout (Prosymna stuhlmanni)
Sundevall’s Shovel-snout (Prosymna sundevallii)
Visser’s Shovel-snout (Prosymna visseri)

Dwarf Sand Snake (Psammophis angolensis)
Short-snouted Grass Snake (Psammophis brevirostris)
Cross-marked Grass Snake (Psammophis crucifer)
Jalla’s Sand Snake (Psammophis jallae)
Cape Sand Snake (Psammophis leightoni)
Leopard Sand Snake (Psammophis leopardinus)
Lined Sand Snake (Psammophis lineatus)
Olive Grass Snake (Psammophis mossambicus)
Namib Sand Snake (Psammophis namibensis)
Karoo Sand Snake Psammophis notostictus)
Eastern Stripe-bellied Sand Snake (Psammophis orientalis)
Western Stripe-bellied Sand Snake (Psammophis subtaeniatus)
Western Sand Snake (Psammophis trigrammus)
Fork-marked Sand Snake (Psammophis trinasalis)

Spotted Skaapsteker (Psammophylax rhombeatus)
Striped Skaapsteker (Psammophylax tritaeniatus)
Grey-bellied Skaapsteker (Psammophylax variabilis)

Mole Snake (Pseudaspis cana)

Anchieta’s Dwarf Python (Python anchietae)
Southern African Python (Python natalensis)

Western Keeled Snake (Pythonodipsas carinata)

Rufous Beaked Snake (Rhamphiophis rostratus)

Boyle’s Beaked Blind Snake (Rhinotyphlops boylei)
Delalande’s Beaked Blind Snake (Rhinotyphlops lalandei)
Schinz’s Beaked Blind Snake (Rhinotyphlops schinzi)

Beetz’s Tiger Snake (Telescopus beetzii)
Damara Tiger Snake (Telescopus finkeldeyi)
Western Tiger Snake (Telescopus polystictus)
Eastern Tiger Snake (Telescopus semiannulatus)

Southern Vine Snake (Thelotornis capensis capensis)
Oates’ Vine Snake (Thelotornis capensis oatesii)
Eastern Vine Snake (Thelotornis mossambicanus)

Waterberg Quill-snouted Snake  (Xenocalamus bicolor australis)
Bicoloured Quill-snouted Snake (Xenocalamus bicolor bicolor)
Striped Quill-snouted Snake (Xenocalamus bicolor lineatus)
Elongate Quill-snouted Snake (Xenocalamus mechowii)
Save Quill-snouted Snake (Xenocalamus sabiensis)
Speckled Quill-snouted Snake (Xenocalamus transvaalensis)