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Chilorhinophis carpenteri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Atractaspididae
Genus:	Chilorhinophis
Species:	C. carpenteri
Binomial name
Chilorhinophis carpenteri (Parker, 1927)
Synonyms
Parkerophis carpenteri Parker, 1927 Chilorhinophis carpenteri — de Witte & Laurent, 1947 Chilorhinophis butleri — Battersby, 1950

Chilorhinophis carpenteri, or the Liwale two-headed snake, is a species of mildly venomous snake in the family Atractaspididae. The species is native to southeastern Africa.

Geographic range

C. carpenteri is found in Mozambique and southeastern Tanzania.

Taxonomy

C. carpenteri was originally named Parkerophis carpenteri. Some herpetologists, including Battersby, consider C. carpenteri to be a synonym of C. butleri.

Etymology

The specific name, carpenteri, honors the type specimen's collector, British physician and entomologist Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter.

References

1. ^ Species Chilorhinophis butleri at The Reptile Database www.reptile-database.org.
2. "Chilorhinophis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 5 September 2007.
3. Chilorhinophis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 8 May 2009.
4. Parker HW (1927). "Parallel evolution in some opisthoglyphous snakes, with the description of a new species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 20: 81-86. (Parkerophis carpenteri, new species, p. 85).
5. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Chilorhinophis carpenteri, p. 48).

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