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Mehelya

Synonyms: Grobbenia; Mehelia; Siebenrockia

Wikipedia Abstract

Mehelya is a genus of colubrid snakes from Africa. They are collectively called file snakes due to their unusual scalation. They are not venomous.
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Species

Mehelya egbensis (Dunger's File Snake)
Mehelya gabouensis (Gabou File Snake)
Mehelya laurenti
Mehelya poensis (Western Forest File Snake) (Attributes)
Mehelya stenophthalmus (Small-eyed File Snake) (Attributes)
Mehelya stenopthalmus

External References

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