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Platyceps sinai (SCHMIDT & MARX, 1956)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Sinai Racer. 
SynonymLytorhynchus sinai SCHMIDT & MARX 1956: 30
Haemorrhois sinai — SCHMIDT & MARX 1956
Lytorhynchus sinai — CORKILL & COCHRANE 1966
Coluber sinai — SCHÄTTI & WILSON 1986
Coluber sinai — SINDACO 1995
Hemorrhois sinai — SCHLÜTER 2005
Coluber (s.l.) sinai — VENCHI & SINDACO 2006
Platyceps sinai — BAR & HAIMOVITCH 2012
Platyceps sinai — WALLACH et al. 2014: 556
Platyceps sinai — MEIRI et al. 2019 
DistributionEgypt, Sinai, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia

Type locality: Wadi Feizan, Sinai.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: USNM 134989, female 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: A Lytorhynchus with the edges of the rostral only slightly raised; nasal divided; a pattern of sharply defined black dorsal crossbars on a white ground color; dorsals 17; ventrals 184 to 194; caudals 94 [SCHMIDT & MARX 1956].


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CommentDistribution: For a map see Sindaco et al. 2013 and Bar et al. 2021. 
EtymologyNamed after the type locality. 
References
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  • 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
  • Bar, Aviad and Guy Haimovitch 2012. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Israel. Pazbar LTD, 246 pp. - get paper here
  • Corkill, N. L. and Cochrane, J. A. 1966. The snakes of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 62 (3): 475-506 (1965) - get paper here
  • Disi, A.M.; Modry, D.; Nečas, P. & Rifai, L. 2001. Amphibians and reptiles of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 408 pp.
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  • Egan, Damien M.; Lukáš Pola, Ricardo O. Ramalho, David C. Wells, Josh Smithson, and David Olson 2023. A first record of the rare Sinai Banded Racer, Platyceps sinai (Squamata: Colubridae) from Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia. Herpetology Notes 16: 697-700 - get paper here
  • Geniez, Philippe 2018. Snakes of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Princeton University Press, 384 pp. - get paper here
  • Marx,Hymen 1968. Checklist of the reptiles and amphibians of Egypt. Spec. Publ. U.S. Nav. Med. Res. Unit 3: 1-91
  • 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
  • Schätti B; Wilson L D 1986. Coluber Linnaeus. Holarctic racers. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 399: 1-4 - get paper here
  • Schlüter, U. 2005. Die Zornnattern Nordafrikas. Reptilia (Münster) 10 (52): 56-64 - get paper here
  • Schmidt, K. P. & Marx, H. 1956. The herpetology of Sinai. Fieldiana 39 (4): 21-40 - get paper here
  • Sindaco R., Fedrighini, N. & VEnchi, A. 1995. Contribution to the herpetology of Jordan. Boll. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino 13 (1): 389-405
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