Chilorhinophis

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Subordo: Serpentes
Infraordo: Caenophidia
Superfamilia: Elapoidea

Familia: Atractaspididae
Subfamilia: Aparallactinae
Genus: Chilorhinophis
Species: C. butleri – C. carpenteri – C. gerardi
Name

Chilorhinophis

Chilorhinophis is a genus of venomous snakes endemic to Africa. Currently, three species are recognized.[1]

Species
Genus Chilorhinophis -- 3 species

Species[1]	Taxon author[1]	Subspecies*[1]	Common name[2]	Geographic range[2]
C. butleriT	F. Werner, 1907	————	Butler's two-headed snake	Africa: Mongalla, South Sudan.
C. carpenteri	(Parker, 1927)	liwalensis	Liwale two-headed snake	Africa: Mozambique, southeastern Tanzania.
C. gerardi	(Boulenger, 1913)	tanganyikae	Gerard's black and yellow burrowing snake	Africa: southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania.

*) Not including the nominate subspecies. T) Type species.
See also

Snakebite.

References

"Chilorhinophis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 5 September 2007.

Chilorhinophis at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 8 May 2009.

Further reading

Branch, Bill (2004). Field Guide to Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised Edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. ISBN 0-88359-042-5. (Genus Chilorhinophis, p. 67).
Loveridge A (1958). "Revision of Five African Snake Genera". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 119: 1-198. (Genus Chilorhinophis, pp. 168–169).
Werner F (1907). "Ergebnisse der mit Subvention aus der Erbschaft Treitl unternommenen zoologischen Forschungreise Dr. Franz Werner's in den ägyptischen Sudan und nach Nord-Uganda. XII. Die Reptilien und Amphibien ". Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften [Vienna] 116: 1823-1926 + Plates I-IV. (Chilorhinophis, new genus, p. 1881). (in German).