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African House Snakes
“Lamprophis Fuliginosus”
Introduction and description
The African House Snake is small colubrid snake from Africa and surrounding areas. There has been some discussion among taxonomists as to the proper genus to place this group of animals in, but to simplify it for the purpose of this care sheet we will use the most commonly used connotation of lamprophis.
To my knowledge the following are the species generally accepted to belong to this group.
Lamprophis aurora - Aurora House Snake
Lamprophis fiskii - Fisk's House Snake
Lamprophis fuliginosus - Brown House Snake
Lamprophis fuscus - Yellow-bellied House Snake
Lamprophis geometricus - Seychelles House Snake
Lamprophis guttatus - Spotted House Snake
Lamprophis inornatus - Olive House Snake
Lamprophis lineatus – striped house snake
No Common Names to my knowledge:
Lamprophis olivaceus
Lamprophis swazicus
Lamprophis virgatus
Lamprophis maculatus
Lamprophis arabicus
Lamprophis erlangeri
Over the years we have kept a number of the different species and have generally found that the captive requirements for each of them are pretty much the same. For the purpose of this document we will concentrate on the most commonly kept member of the group the Brown House Snake “lamprophis fuliginosus” .
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