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  • Olive Whip Snake, 1 of 4
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    (c) Nigel Voaden, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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    (c) Nigel Voaden, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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    (c) Yvonne A. de Jong, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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    (c) Yvonne A. de Jong, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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Olive Whip Snake

Psammophis mossambicus

Worldwide
589 observations
Group
Reptiles

About

Psammophis mossambicus, the olive grass snake, is a snake species in the family Psammophiidae, the sand and whip snakes (not to be confused with the Australian olive whipsnake, Demansia olivacea). P. mossambicus is native to Southern Africa (Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, eastern South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe), but may also be found in Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda, and as far north as southern Chad....

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