Chad Keates

Common Snakes of Rhodes University Campus

Grahamstown, and the area surrounding, plays host to some amazing reptile diversity. if you are keen on reptiles, like myself, and wish to find them all, you will be surprised at...

Category: Popular Science, Snakes Tags: boomslang, campus, cpu, eastern cape, grahamstown, herpetology, herping, nature, night adder, puff adder, red lipped herald, reptile, rhodes cpu, rhodes university, rhodes zoology and entomology department, snake at rhodes, snake on campus, snake removal, Snakes, south africa, wildlife, zeml

Karoo Whip Snake – Psammophis notostictus

Category: Psammophiidae, Reptiles, Snakes Tags: african herpetology, african whip snake, grass snake, karoo grass snake, karoo sand snake, psammophiid, sand snake, south african whip snake

Cape Wolf Snake (Lycophidion capense)

Category: Lamprophiidae, Reptiles, Snakes Tags: african herpetology, animal, cape wolf snake, eastern cape, grahamstown, herpetofauna, herpetology, herping, reptile, snake, south africa, wildlife, wolf snake, zoology

Spotted Harlequin (Homoroselaps lacteus)

Category: Atractaspididae, Reptiles, Snakes Tags: african burrowing snake, african herpetology, aposematic colouration, black yellow and red snake, colourful snake, long thin snake, mildly venomous, south african snake, venomous snake

Olive Ground Snake (Lycodonomorphus inornatus)

Category: Lamprophiidae, Reptiles, Snakes Tags: african herpetology, african house snake, african reptile, brown snake, harmless snake, lamphrophiid, large olive snake, long olive snake, non-venomous snake, olive house snake, olive snake, south african snake, water sanke, widespread snake

Spotted Skaapsteker (Psammophylax rhombeatus)

Category: Psammophiidae, Reptiles, Snakes Tags: african herpetology, grass snake, mildly venomous, psammophiid, sheep stabber, skaapsteker, south african grass snake, south african skaapsteker, spotted grass snake, venomous snake

Albany Adder – Bitis albanica

Category: Reptiles, Snakes, Viperidae Tags: adder, albany adder, animal, bitis, bitis albanica, chad, dwarf adder, eastern cape, front page, herper, herpetology, keates, nature, rare, rarest snake in south africa, reptile, rhodes university, snake, south africa, venom, viper, wildlife

Sundevall’s Shovel-snouted Snake – Prosymna sundevalli

Category: Prosymnidae, Reptiles, Snakes Tags: african herpetology, african shovel-snout, shovel-snout, shovel-snouted snake, south african shovel-snout, sundevalls shovel-snout

Boomslang (Dispholidus typus typus)

Category: Colubridae, Reptiles, Snakes Tags: africa, animal, boomslang, danger, dispholidus typus, eastern cape, grahamstown, herpetologist, herpetology, nature, reptile, snake, south africa, venom, wildlife, zoologist

Cape Cobra – Naja nivea

Category: Elapidae, Reptiles, Snakes Tags: african cobra, african snake, dangerous snake, deadly snake, eastern cape cobra, geelslang, large yellow snake, most dangerous cobra in africa, most venomous african cobra, neurotoxic venom, very dangerous snake, yellow cobra

Eastern Tiger Snake (Telescopus semiannulatus semiannulatus)

Category: Colubridae, Reptiles, Snakes Tags: africa, animal, colubrid, Colubridae, eastern tiger snake, herpetology, hluhluwe, kwazulu natal, racer, reptile, snake, south africa, tiger snake, wildlife

Southern Vine Snake (Thelotornis capensis capensis)

Category: Colubridae, Reptiles, Snakes Tags: africa, animal, beauty, bird snake, danger, herpetology, hluhluwe, kwazulu natal, nature, reptile, rhodes university, snake, south africa, twig snake, venom, vine snake, wildlife, zoology

Transvaal Quill-snouted Snake (Xenocalamus transvaalensis)

Category: Atractaspididae, Reptiles, Snakes Tags: african burrowing snake, african herpetology, quill-snouted snake, south african quill-snout, south african snake, xenocalamus

Marbled Tree Snake (Dipsadoboa aulica)

Category: Colubridae, Reptiles, Snakes Tags: africa, animal, beauty, biology, colour, herpetology, hluhluwe, kwazulu natal, marbled tree snake, nature, reptile, snake, south africa, wildlife, zoology, zululand

Natal Black Snake – Macrelaps microlepidotus

Category: Atractaspididae, Reptiles, Snakes Tags: african herpetology, african snake, black snake, mildly venomous, south african forest snake, south african snake

Rinkhals (Hemachatus haemachatus)

Category: Elapidae, Reptiles, Snakes Tags: africa, animal, eastern cape, hemachatus haemachatus, herpetology, nature, reptile, rinkhals, snake, south africa, spitting cobra, transkei, venom, wildlife

Namaqua Dwarf Adder – Bitis schneideri

Category: Reptiles, Snakes, Viperidae Tags: adder, africa, bitis schneideri, dwarf adder, herpetology, namaqua dwarf adder, nature, northern cape, reptile, smallest, snake, south africa, venom, viper, wildlife

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