Home - Taxonomy - Geography - Biodiversity - Literature - Purchase RepFocus Recent updates Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk). Latest update: December 31st, 2022. Taxonomy of the family Lamprophiidae Bibliography of the genus Lamprophis Biodiversity of the family Lamprophiidae Genus Lamprophis SubSaharan House Snakes Südafrikanische Hausschlangen Afrikanske Hussnoge 1843 Lamprophis Fitzinger (type species: Coluber aurora Linnaeus 1758) 1854 Eugnathus Dumeril, Bibron & Dumeril (type species: Lycodon geometricus Schlegel 1837) Contents: 3 species, of which 1 (33.3%) is endemic. Endemism: 0% 100% Remarks: Previously included Alopecion guttatum, Lycodonomorphus inornatus and the species now assigned to Boaedon and Inyoka. Kelly, Branch, Broadley, Barker & Villet (2011) provisionally retained four more species (abyssinicus, erlangeri, geometricus, guttatus) in Lamprophis. These species are assigned herein to Boaedon, following Wallach, Williams & Boundy (2014). Distribution: SubSaharan Africa. Reported from: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, South Africa (Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West Province, Northern Cape, Western Cape). Lamprophis aurora Aurora House Snake Aurora-Hausschlange Aurora-hussnog 1758 Coluber aurora Linnaeus Cerastes aurora Laurenti 1768 Duberria aurora Fitzinger 1826 Coronella aurora Schlegel 1837 Lamprophis aurora Smith 1849 Distribution: Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa (Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West Province, Northern Cape, Western Cape). Lamprophis aurora © Rune Midtgaard Lamprophis fiskii Cape House Snake, (Fisk's House Snake) Südliche Hausschlange Sydlig Hussnog 1887 Lamprophis fiskii Boulenger Distribution: South Africa (Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Western Cape). Lamprophis fuscus Yellow-bellied House Snake, (Yellow-bellied Snake) Gelbbauch-Hausschlange Gulbuget Hussnog 1893 Lamprophis fuscus Boulenger Distribution: Eswatini, South Africa (Eastern Cape, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Western Cape).