Eastern green mamba
Scientific name: Dendroaspis angusticeps (Smith, 1849)
Overview
The eastern green mamba is a highly venomous snake species of the mamba genus Dendroaspis native to the coastal regions of southern East Africa. Described by Scottish surgeon and zoologist Andrew Smith in 1849, it has a slender build with a bright green back and green-yellow ventral scales. Adult females average around 2 metres in length, and males are slightly smaller.
From the Wikipedia article “Eastern green mamba”, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Conservation status
Least concern on the IUCN Red List, as recorded on Wikidata, citing The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2.
Where it lives
The Catalogue of Life records it in: Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, E Zimbabwe,.
Common names
Also known in English as Green Mamba.
Names in other languages (12)
- Arabic
- ممبة خضراء
- Bengali
- পূর্বাঞ্চলীয় সবুজ মাম্বা
- Chinese
- 东部绿曼巴蛇
- French
- Mamba vert de l'Est
- German
- Blattgrüne Mamba, Gewöhnliche Mamba
- Indonesian
- Mamba hijau timur
- Japanese
- ヒガシグリーンマンバ
- Persian
- مامبای سبز شرقی
- Portuguese
- Mamba-verde-oriental
- Russian
- Узкоголовая мамба
- Spanish
- Mamba verde oriental
- Turkish
- Yeşil ağaç mambası
Related animals
Sources
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Catalogue of Life — scientific name, classification, common names and range.
Version 2026-09-11, CC BY 4.0.
This species in the Catalogue of Life.
Citation
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n Source database: The Reptile Database.
- GBIF — species page and recorded occurrences.
- Wikidata — conservation status, names in other languages. Q622805, CC0 1.0.
- Wikipedia — overview, from the article “Eastern green mamba”, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo — Danleo~commonswiki, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
- Range map — Casliber, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. File page.
Last updated: 4 October 2026