| Common slug eater | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Pseudoxyrhophiidae |
| Subfamily: | Amplorhininae |
| Genus: | Duberria |
| Species: | D. lutrix
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| Binomial name | |
| Duberria lutrix | |
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Duberria lutrix, or the common slug eater, is a small, ovoviviparous,[4] molluscivorous, non-venomous snake, which is endemic to Africa.
- ^ Boulenger, G.A. 1894. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. Trustees of the British Museum. London. xi + 382 pp. + Plates I. - XX. (Homalosoma lutrix, pp. 274-276.)
- ^ The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
- ^ Pyron, R.A.; Burbrink, F.T.; Wiens, J.J. (2013). "A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13 (1): 1–53. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-13-93. PMC 3682911. PMID 23627680.
- ^ Roland Bauchot, ed. (2006). Snakes: A Natural History. Sterling. ISBN 978-1-4027-3181-5.