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Posted by chrish on October 15, 2002 at 10:53:14:
In Reply to: question posted by jd2000 on October 14, 2002 at 22:39:14:
Unfortunately, there is no such thing as an Egyptian Lyre (Liar) Snake (or at least, nothing that I have ever heard of/seen - and I am reasonably familiar with many North African/Middle Eastern snake groups).
It is probably one of two things -
Telescopus sp. - one of the African/European cat-eyed snakes. They are lizard eaters typically. Typically, dealers know the name of this snake and call it a cat-eyed snake of some sort or other.
Lytorhynchus sp. - these snakes have no accepted English common name (which would explain the made-up name "Egyptian Lyre Snake"). They apparently eat geckos and other species of lizards and their eggs.
I suspect what you have is one of the latter species, as they have shown up on import dealers lists with some alarming frequency in the last several months. I have seen a few posts here on Kingsnake.com forums about them.
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