where did the name black mamba come from
The term "mamba" is derived from the Zulu word ""imamba""
Black mamba
he term "mamba" is derived from the Zulu word ""imamba""
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Black mamba [SEP] Taxonomy
The first formal description of the black mamba was made in 1864 by German-born British zoologist Albert Günther. A single specimen was one of many species of snake collected by John Kirk, a naturalist who accompanied David Livingstone on the 1858–1864 Second Zambesi expedition. This specimen is the holotype and is housed in the Natural History Museum, London. The generic name of the species is derived from the Ancient Greek words "dendron" ("δένδρον"), "tree", and "aspis" ("ἀσπίς") "asp", and the specific epithet "polylepis" is derived from the Ancient Greek "poly" ("πολύ") meaning "many" and "lepis" ("λεπίς") meaning "scale". The term "mamba" is derived from the Zulu word ""imamba"" (meaning scales).