World Species : Boaedon fuliginosus (Brown House Snake)

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Boaedon fuliginosus (Brown House Snake)

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Synonyms: Boaedon arabicus; Boaedon unicolor; Lycodon fuliginosus

Attributes

Adult Weight ^[1]	384 grams

Female Maturity ^[2]	6 months 2 days
Male Maturity ^[2]	6 months 2 days

Gestation ^[1]	66 days
Litter Size ^[1]	8
Maximum Longevity ^[2]	9 years

Ecoregions

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Name	Countries	Ecozone	Biome
Albertine Rift montane forests	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi,Tanzania	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Angolan Miombo woodlands	Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Angolan montane forest-grassland mosaic	Angola	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Angolan Mopane woodlands	Angola, Namibia	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Angolan Scarp savanna and woodlands	Angola	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert	Oman, Yemen, Saudi Arabia	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands	Tanzania, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Zambia, Malawi	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
East African montane forests	Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
East Sudanian savanna	Chad, Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Ethiopian montane forests	Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands	Ethiopia, Eritrea	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Ethiopian montane moorlands	Ethiopia	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Guinean forest-savanna mosaic	Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Senegal	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Inner Niger Delta flooded savanna	Mali	Afrotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Itigi-Sumbu thicket	Tanzania, Zambia	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Jos Plateau forest-grassland mosaic	Nigeria	Afrotropic	Montane Grasslands and Shrublands
Kalahari xeric savanna	Botswana, Namibia, South Africa	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Lake Chad flooded savanna	Nigeria, Chad, Niger	Afrotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Mandara Plateau mosaic	Cameroon, Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Masai xeric grasslands and shrublands	Kenya	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets	Morocco, Spain	Palearctic	Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub
Nama Karoo	Namibia, South Africa	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Namib desert	Namibia	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Namibian savanna woodlands	Angola, Namibia	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Northeastern Congolian lowland forests	Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Republic of the Congo	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Northern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets	Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Central African Republic, Cameroon	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Saharan flooded grasslands	Sudan	Afrotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas
Sahelian Acacia savanna	Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Serengeti volcanic grasslands	Tanzania	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets	Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets	Tanzania, Kenya	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna	Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Succulent Karoo	Namibia, South Africa	Afrotropic	Deserts and Xeric Shrublands
Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic	Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
West Sudanian savanna	Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Western Congolian forest-savanna mosaic	Gabon, Congo, Democratic Rep of the Congo, Angola	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Western Zambezian grasslands	Angola, Zambia	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands
Zambezian Cryptosepalum dry forests	Zambia	Afrotropic	Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Zambezian flooded grasslands	Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia	Afrotropic	Flooded Grasslands and Savannas

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name	Location	Endemic
Eastern Afromontane	Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe	No
Horn of Africa	Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen	No
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany	Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland	No
Mediterranean Basin	Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey	No
Succulent Karoo	Namibia, South Africa	No

Predators

Bdeogale crassicauda (Bushy-tailed Mongoose)

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Consumers

Parasitized by
Hexametra quadricornis	^[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ ¹Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ ²de 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
♦ ³Bdeogale crassicauda, Mark E. Taylor, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 294, pp. 1-4 (1987)
♦ ⁴Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London

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