| Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | |
| Synonym | Platyceps saharicus SCHÄTTI & MCCARTHY 2004
Zamenis rhodorhachis var. tessellata WERNER 1910: 277 (nomen dubium)
Platyceps saharicus — BÖHME 2010: 105
Platyceps saharicus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 556
Platyceps saharicus — BAUER et al. 2017
Platyceps saharicus — BAR et al. 2021 |
| Distribution | SE Algeria, SE Libya, N Chad, NE Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), E Egypt, Israel, W Jordan, W Saudi Arabia, elevation 550-1700 m.
Type locality: "Egypt: St. Catherine's Monastery area, Wadi el Sheikh" [= Wadi el Sheikh, vicinity of St. Catherine's Monastery (28°33'N, 33°59'E, elevation 1585 m), South Sinai Govern., NE Egypt]
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: FMNH 72108, female; paratypes: FMNH, BMNH, HUJ, MHNG, MNHN, SMF, TAU, ZFMK |
| Diagnosis | |
| Comment | Synonymy: PERRY 2012: 97 considered Platyceps saharicus a synonym of Platyceps tessellata, but the status of the latter is not clear (Guy Sinaiko, pers. comm. 6 Nov 2017). Perry 1985 announced a new subspecies without actually describing or naming it. Platyceps tessellata is not clearly diagnosable from either rhodorhachis or saharicus (Sinaiko et al. 2018) and thus a nomen dubium.
Distribution: For a map see Sindaco et al. 2013 and Bar et al. 2021. |
| Etymology | Named after its distribution area. In most of its distribution area the records are rather scattered. |
| References |
- Bar, A., Haimovitch, G. and Meiri, S. 2021. Field guide to the amphibians and reptiles of Israel. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt Am Main. ISBN 9783-89973-120-0 - get paper here
- Bauer, Aaron M.; Jonathan C. DeBoer , Dylan J. Taylor 2017. Atlas of the Reptiles of Libya. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 64 (8): 155-318 - get paper here
- Böhme, Wolfgang 2010. A list of the herpetological type specimens in the Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Bonn zoological Bulletin 59: 79-108 - get paper here
- Böhme, Wolfgang 2014. Herpetology in Bonn. Mertensiella 21. vi + 256 pp. - get paper here
- Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248
- Meiri, Shai; Amos Belmaker, Daniel Berkowic, Kesem Kazes, Erez Maza, Guy Bar-Oz and Roi Dor 2019. A checklist of Israeli land vertebrates. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution - get paper here
- Milto, Konstantin D.; Samy A. Saber, Abdullah M. Nagy, Roman A. Nazarov, Daniel A. Melnikov, Natalia B. Ananjeva 2019. First Report on the Reptile Diversity of Wadi El Gemal National Park, Eastern Desert, Egypt. Russ. J. Herpetol. 26 (3): 175-184 - get paper here
- Perry, G. 1985. A new subspecies of Coluber rhodorachis (Ophidia: Colubridae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 33:123 [meeting abstract]
- Perry, Gad 2012. On the Appropriate Names for Snakes Usually Identified as Coluber rhodorachis (Jan, 1865) or Why Ecologists Should Approach the Forest of Taxonomy with Great Care. IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 19 (2): 90–100 - get paper here
- Schätti, B. & McCarthy, C. 2004. Saharo-Arabian racers of the Platyceps rhodorhachis complex - description of a new species (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubrinae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 111 (4): 691-705 - get paper here
- Sindaco, R.; Alberto Venchi & Cristina Grieco 2013. The Reptiles of the Western Palearctic, Volume 2: Annotated Checklist and Distributional Atlas of the Snakes of Europe, North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia, with an Update to Volume 1. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina (Italy), 543 pp. - get paper here
- Spawls, Stephen; Tomáš Mazuch& Abubakr Mohammad 2023. Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. Bloomsbury, 640 pp. - get paper here
- Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
- Werner, F. 1910. Neue oder seltenere Reptilien des Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique in Brüssel. [Mabuia dolloi, Mabuia polylepis]. Zool. Jb. Abt. Syst. Okol. Geogr. 28 [1909]: 263-288. - get paper here
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