African File Snake

About

African File Snake (Limaformosa crossi) is a non-venomous snake of the family Lamprophiidae, found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad and 10 more. It lives in habitats such as tropical rainforest, tropical moist forest, tropical lowland forest, evergreen forest and 12 more. Recorded in 4 places on iNaturalist.

Where it lives

Native range

• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Ivory Coast
• Liberia
• Mali
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• South Sudan
• Togo

Habitats

Estimated from where this snake is recorded and what kind of snake it is - not a confirmed habitat survey.

• Tropical Rainforest
• Tropical Moist Forest
• Tropical Lowland Forest
• Evergreen Forest
• Dry Woodland
• Open Woodland
• Scrub Forest
• Thorn Forest
• Savanna
• Tropical Savanna
• Dry Savanna
• Semi-Desert
• Congo Basin Rainforest
• Guinean Rainforest
• Sudanian Savanna
• Sahel Shrubland

Related snakes

• Angola File Snake Limaformosa vernayi
• Common File Snake Limaformosa capensis
• Congo File Snake Limaformosa savorgnani
• Unicolor File Snake Limaformosa chanleri
• Guiral's File Snake Limaformosa guirali
• Long-lined House Snake Boaedon longilineatus
• Mlanje White-bellied Water-Snake Lycodonomorphus mlanjensis
• Central-African Lined House Snake Boaedon paralineatus
• Yellow House Snake Boaedon subflavus
• Coastal House Snake (littoralis) Boaedon littoralis
• Black File Snake Gracililima nyassae
• Boaedon mendesi