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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: April 12th, 2025.


Taxonomy of the family Lamprophiidae
Bibliography of the genus Hypoptophis
Biodiversity of the family Lamprophiidae








Genus
Hypoptophis

Wedge-snouted Burrowing Snake

Keilschnauzen-Wühlnatter

Skovlsnudet Gravesnog

1908 Hypoptophis Boulenger (type species: Hypoptophis wilsoni Boulenger 1908)
1911 Michellia Müller (type species: Michellia katangae Müller 1911)
Contents: 1 species, which is not endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Distribution: As for the single species.

Meristic and other data
of the world's snakes.
Compiled by
V. Wallach
Key to abbreviations


Head drawings of the
genus Hypoptophis.
Compiled by
V. Wallach

Hypoptophis wilsoni

Wedge-snouted Burrowing Snake

Keilschnauzen-Wühlnatter

Skovlsnudet Gravesnog

1908 Hypoptophis wilsoni Boulenger
1911 Michellia katangae Müller
Hypoptophis wilsoni katangae Witte & Laurent 1947

Distribution: Angola, Congo-Kinshasa, Zambia.