Schokari sand racer
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The Schokari sand racer or Forskal sand snake (Psammophis schokari) is a species of psammophiid snake found in parts of Asia and Africa.[1][2] Psammophis aegyptius has at times been considered a subspecies of Psammophis schokari but is presently considered a full species.[3] Many people refer to snakes in the genus Psammophis as colubrids, but this is now known to be incorrect — they were once classified in the Colubridae, but our more sophisticated understanding of the relationships among the groups of snakes has led herpetologists to reclassify Psammophis and its relatives into Lamprophiidae, a family more closely related to Elapidae than to Colubridae.[4]
Distribution
Northwest India, Afghanistan (Leviton 1959: 461), Pakistan, south Turkmenistan, Western Sahara, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman,[5] Syria, kenya, Iraq, Iran (Kavir oDesert), and Yemen.
Type locality: Yemen.
References
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- ↑ Psammophis schokari at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 2 June 2024.
- ↑ Psammophis aegyptius at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 2 June 2024.
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- Forskål, P. 1775 Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere Orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Mölleri, Hauniae, xxxiv + 164 pp.
- Marx, H. 1988 The colubrid snake, Psammophis schokari, from the Arabian Peninsula. Fieldiana Zool. New Ser. 40 (1383): 1-16
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- Psammophis
- Snakes of Africa
- Snakes of Asia
- Reptiles of Central Asia
- Reptiles of the Middle East
- Reptiles of North Africa
- Reptiles of Afghanistan
- Fauna of Egypt
- Reptiles of Ethiopia
- Snakes of India
- Reptiles of Iran
- Reptiles of Iraq
- Snakes of Jordan
- Fauna of Libya
- Reptiles of Pakistan
- Reptiles of Somalia
- Reptiles described in 1775
- Taxa named by Peter Forsskål