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What is the scientific name of black mamba?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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Awenecrysis

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The black mamba, a highly poisonous snake native to Africa, is called 'Dendroaspis Polylepis' by scientists. The name was coined by a herpetologist in the mid 1800's and means 'many scaled tree-asp' when translated from the Greek.

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