Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Elapidae > Elapsoidea > Elapsoidea sundevallii

Elapsoidea sundevallii (Sundevall's Garter Snake, African Garter Snake; Sundevall's garter sanke)

Synonyms:

Infraspecies

Elapsoidea sundevallii decosteri (De Coster's Garter Snake)
Elapsoidea sundevallii fitzsimonsi (Kalahari Garter Snake)
Elapsoidea sundevallii longicauda (Long-tailed Garter Snake)
Elapsoidea sundevallii media (Highveld Garter Snake)
Elapsoidea sundevallii sundevallii (African Garter Snake)

Attributes

Maximum Longevity [1]  12 years
Venomous [2]  Yes

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Etosha National Park II 5699141 Namibia  
Kruger National Park II 4718115 Mpumalanga, South Africa
Kruger to Canyons Biosphere Reserve   Mpumalanga, South Africa  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania No
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland No

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Living Hazards Database, Armed Forces Pest Management Board, U.S. Army Garrison - Forest Glen
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0