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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 Gracililima
Biodiversity of the family Lamprophiidae








Genus
Gracililima

Black File Snake

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2018 Gracililima Broadley, Tolley, Conradie, Wishart, Trape, Burger, Kusamba, Zassi-Boulou & Greenbaum (type species: Simocephalus nyassae Günther 1888)
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.
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Head drawings of the
genus Gracililima.
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V. Wallach

Gracililima nyassae

Black File Snake, Nyassa File Snake, Dwarf File Snake

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1888 Simocephalus nyassae Günther
Heterolepis nyassae Bocage 1896
Mehelya nyassae Werner 1929
Gonionotophis nyassae Kelly, Branch, Broadley, Barker & Villet 2011
Gracililima nyassae Broadley, Tolley, Conradie, Wishart, Trape, Burger, Kusamba, Zassi-Boulou & Greenbaum 2018
1909 Gonionotophis degrijsi Werner (Loveridge 1939; Broadley 1983)

Distribution: Botswana, Burundi, Congo-Kinshasa, Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa (Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West Province), Tanzania (incl. Zanzibar), Zambia, Zimbabwe.