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Chilorhinophis butleri
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Atractaspididae
Genus:	Chilorhinophis
Species:	C. butleri
Binomial name
Chilorhinophis butleri F. Werner, 1907

Chilorhinophis butleri, also known commonly as Butler's black-and-yellow burrowing snake and Butler's two-headed snake, is a species of mildly venomous snake in the family Atractaspididae. The species is endemic to East Africa.

Geographic range

C. butleri is found in Mozambique, South Sudan, and Tanzania.

Etymology

The specific name, butleri, is in honor of English zoologist Arthur Lennox Butler (1873–1939), who was the son of Edward Arthur Butler.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitat of C. butleri is savanna, at altitudes around 400 m (1,300 ft).

Behavior

C. butleri burrows in soft, sandy soils and leaf litter.

Diet

C. butleri is known to prey upon amphisbaenians, and it may also eat snakes.

Reproduction

C. butleri is oviparous.

References

1. ^ Msuya CA, Ngalason W, Howell K (2019). "Chilorhinophis butleri ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: 2019: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T20878317A20878339.en. Accessed on 13 December 2021.
2. "Chilorhinophis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 5 September 2007.
3. ^ Chilorhinophis butleri at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 21 December 2017.
4. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Chilorhinophis butleri, p. 44).

Further reading

• Spawls S, Howell K, Hinkel H, Menegon M (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles, Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury Natural History. 624 pp. ISBN 978-1472935618. (Chilorhinophis butleri, p. 465).
• Werner F (1907). "Ergebnisse der mit Subvention aus der Erbschaft Treitl unternommenen zoologischen Forschungreise Dr. Franz Werner's in den ägyptischen Sudan und nach Nord-Uganda. XII. Die Reptilien und Amphibien ". Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 116: 1823-1926 + Plates I-IV. (Chilorhinophis butleri, new species, p. 1881 + Plate III, figures 8a-8d). (in German).

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