The Red-Black Striped Snake or, Bothrophthalmus lineatus, is the monotypical member of the genus Bothrophthalmus. This snake is found in the East African counrys of Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Angola, Guinea. It is a harmless snake, black with 5 red striped down the back. It lives n forests and forest islands from 700 to 2300 meters attitude often near water. A terrestrial and nocturnal snake, and when not active hides in holes, leaf litter, in or under rotting logs. It is said that it bites furiously if handled (although it is harmless). Lays clutches with 5 eggs or so and it eats small forest animals such as shrews and mice.

There are two recognized subspecies

Subspecies

Subspecies in biological classification, is either a taxonomic rank subordinate to species, ora taxonomic unit in that rank . A subspecies cannot be recognized in isolation: a species will either be recognized as having no subspecies at all or two or more, never just one...

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• Bothrophthalmus lineatus brunneus (Günther
  Albert C. L. G. Günther
  Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther , was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist....
  
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• Bothrophthalmus lineatus lineatus (Peters, 1863)