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Striped House Snake

Boaedon lineatus Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854

Source-backed taxonomic record

Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.

Open encyclopedia reference

Boaedon lineatus, the striped house snake, is a species of lamprophiid from

all throughout Africa. This species has a wide range stretching from Tanzania through Central Africa as far as Uganda. They are kept as pets with increasing regularity, often captured and exported for the pet trade.

Until November 2010, this species was grouped in the genus Lamprophis, but a paper published by Kelly et al. reclassified this species in the genus Boaedon.

Wikipedia contributors, Boaedon lineatus; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T08:27:26.936165+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.

Identity & source status

Scientific name
Boaedon lineatus Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854
Name authority
Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854
Common name
Striped House Snake
Rank
species
Accepted status
accepted
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Reptilia
Order
Squamata
Family
Lamprophiidae
Genus
Boaedon
Extinction status
Not supplied by this source

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

  1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
  2. kingdomAnimalia
  3. phylumChordata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. infraphylumGnathostomata
  6. parvphylumOsteichthyes
  7. megaclassTetrapoda
  8. classReptilia Laurenti, 1768
  9. orderSquamata Oppel, 1811
  10. suborderSerpentes Linnaeus, 1758
  11. infraorderAlethinophidia Nopcsa, 1923
  12. familyLamprophiidae
  13. genusBoaedon
  14. speciesBoaedon lineatus Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Boaedon. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

SpeciesClassificationSource status
Radford’s House SnakeBoaedon radfordi Greenbaum, Portillo, Jackson & Kusamba, 2015LamprophiidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Coastal House SnakeBoaedon littoralis Trape & Mediannikov, 2016LamprophiidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Central-African Lined House SnakeBoaedon paralineatus Trape & Mediannikov, 2016LamprophiidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Boaedon perisilvestris Trape & Mediannikov, 2016LamprophiidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Frade’s Brown House SnakeBoaedon fradei Hallermann, Ceríaco, Schmitz, Ernst, Conradie, Verburgt, Marques & Bauer, 2020LamprophiidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Boaedon variegatus (Bocage, 1867)LamprophiidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Boaedon bedriagae Boulenger, 1906LamprophiidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Olive House SnakeBoaedon olivaceus (Duméril, 1856)LamprophiidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Boaedon broadleyi Hallermann & Hawlitschek, 2025LamprophiidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied
Lined Water SnakeBoaedon subtaeniatus Laurent, 1954LamprophiidaeChordataAccepted speciesExtinction status not supplied

Browse 65 records assigned to Lamprophiidae.

Names & synonyms

Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.

Recorded nameSource status
Boodon lineatus var. plutonis Werner, 1902 Werner, 1902synonym
Alopecion variegatum Bocage, 1867 Bocage, 1867ambiguous synonym
Boodon lineatus var. angolensis Bocage, 1895 Bocage, 1895ambiguous synonym

Documented distribution

Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.

Mali, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire, except in the south), Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea (Conakry), Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Republic of South Sudan (RSS), Sudan (Jumhūriyyat)

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

  1. Duméril, A.M.C., G. BIBRON & A.H.A. DUMÉRIL. (1854). Erpétologie générale ou Histoire Naturelle complète des Reptiles. Vol. 7 (partie 1). Paris, Xvi + 780 S. Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:M7W3. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.