Английская Википедия:Dasypeltis medici
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Dasypeltis medici, known commonly as the East African egg-eater and the eastern forest egg-eater, is a species of nonvenomous snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Africa.
Etymology
The specific name, medici, is in honor of Italian physiologist Michele Medici.[1]
Geographic range
D. medici is found in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.[2]
Habitat
The preferred habitat of D. medici is lowland evergreen forest.[3]
Description
D. medici may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of Шаблон:Convert for females, and Шаблон:Convert for males.[3]
Diet
D. medici, like all species in the genus Dasypeltis, feeds exclusively on birds' eggs. It can swallow an egg three times the size of its head. The egg is slit open by vertebral hypapophyses which extend into the esophagus. The collapsed empty shell is regurgitated.[4]
Reproduction
D. medici is oviparous.[2] An adult female may lay a clutch of 6–28 elongate eggs, each egg measuring Шаблон:Convert.[3]
References
Further reading
- Bianconi, "J. Jos." (1859). Specimina Zoologica Mosambicana, Fasciculus XII. pp. 497–506 + Plates 25–27. (Dipsas medici, new species, pp. 501–502 + Plate 26). (in Latin).
- ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. Шаблон:ISBN. (Dasypeltis medici, p. 175).
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Шаблон:EMBL species. www.reptile-database.org.
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 Branch, Bill (2004). Snakes and other Reptiles of Southern Africa. Third Revised edition, Second impression. Sanibel Island, Florida: Ralph Curtis Books. 399 pp. Шаблон:ISBN. (Dasypeltis medici, p. 96 + Plate15).
- ↑ Branch (2004). (Dasypeltis, p. 95).
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