Crotaphopeltis tornieri, also known commonly as Tornier's cat snake and Werner's cat snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Africa.
Etymology The specific name, tornieri, is in honor of German zoologist Gustav Tornier.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Crotaphopeltis tornieri, p. 266).
Geographic range C. tornieri is found in Malawi, Tanzania and Kenya. www.reptile-database.org.
Habitat The preferred natural habitat of C. tornieri is forest, at altitudes of .
Reproduction C. tornieri is oviparous.
References
Further reading Rasmussen JB (1993). "The current taxonomic status of Tornier's cat-snake (Crotaphopeltis tornieri)". Amphibia-Reptilia 14: 395–409. Finke, Florian & Daniel Liepack (2021). A first record of the Tornier's Cat Snake (Crotaphopeltis tornieri [Werner, 1908]) from Kenya. Erstnachweis der Torniers Katzennatter (Crotaphopeltis tornieri [Werner, 1908]) in Kenia. Sauria 43 (2): 67-70 https://sauria.de/freepdf/Sauria2021_2_67-70.pdf
Spawls, Stephen; Howell, Kim; Hinkel, Harald; Menegon, Michele (2018). Field Guide to East African Reptiles, Second Edition. London: Bloomsbury Natural History. 624 pp. . (Crotaphopeltis tornieri, p. 526). Werner F (1908). "Ergebnisse der mit Subvention aus der Erbschaft Treitl unternommenen zoologischen Forschungreise Dr. Franz Werner's nach dem ägyptischen Sudan und Nord-Uganda. XII. Die Reptilien und Amphibien ". Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Wissenschaftliche Klasse 116: 1823–1926. (Leptodira tornieri, new species, p. 1876). (in German).