Toxicodryas blandingii

Toxicodryas blandingii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Toxicodryas
Species:	T. blandingii
Binomial name
	Toxicodryas blandingii; (Hallowell, 1844)
Synonyms
	Dipsas blandingii ; Hallowell, 1844; Toxicodryas blandingii ; — Hallowell, 1857; Dipsadomorphus blandingii ; — F. Werner, 1899; Boiga blandingii ; — Schmidt, 1923; Toxicodryas blandingii ; — Wallach et al., 2014;

Toxicodryas blandingii, commonly known as Blanding's cat snake or Blanding's tree snake, is a species of rear-fanged venomous snake of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Sub-Saharan Africa.

Etymology[]

The specific name, blandingii, is in honor of William Blanding (1772–1857), an American physician and naturalist.^[2]

T. blandingii is oviparous.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c Species Toxicodryas blandingii at The Reptile Database
^ , , (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Boiga blandingii, p. 27).

Boulenger GA (1896). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume III., Containing the Colubridæ (Opisthoglyphæ and Proteroglyphæ) ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiv + 727 pp. + Plates I-XXV. (Dipsadomorphus blandingii, pp. 77–78).
Hallowell E (1844). "Descriptions of New Species of African Reptiles". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2: 169–172. (Dipsas blandingii, new species, pp. 170–171).
, , , (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles, Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury Natural History. 624 pp. ISBN 978-1472935618. (Toxicodryas blandingii, p. 511).

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