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Eirenis coronella (SCHLEGEL, 1837)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
SubspeciesEirenis coronella coronella (SCHLEGEL 1837)
Eirenis coronella fennelli ARNOLD 1982
Eirenis coronella ibrahimi SIVAN & WERNER 2003 
Common NamesE: Crowned Dwarf Racer
G: Krönchen-Zwergnatter 
SynonymCalamaria coronella SCHLEGEL 1837: 48
Homalosoma (Pediophis) coronella — FITZINGER 1843
Homalosoma coronella — JAN 1862
Eirenis fasciatus JAN 1863 (fide FRANZEN & GLAW 2007: 251)
Ablabes coronella — BOETTGER 1880: 140
Contia brevicauda NIKOLSKY 1907: 298
Contia coronella — WALL 1908: 802
Contia coronella — BOULENGER 1920
Eirenis coronella coronella — SCHMIDT 1939
Eirenis brevicauda — SCHMIDT 1939
Eirenis coronella fraseri SCHMIDT 1939
Eirenis coronella — SCHMIDT & MARX 1956: 30
Eirenis arabica HAAS 1961
Eirenis arabica — CORKILL & COCHRANE 1966
Eirenis coronella — BARAN 1978
Eirenis coronella coronella — GASPERETTI 1988: 235
Eirenis (Collaria) coronella — DOTSENKO 1989
Eirenis (Pediophis) coronella — NAGY et al. 2004
Eirenis coronella — WALLACH et al. 2014: 257
Eirenis coronella — MEIRI et al. 2019

Eirenis coronella fennelli ARNOLD 1982
Eirenis coronella fennelli — GASPERETTI 1988: 238
Eirenis coronella fennelli — SCHÄTTI & GASPERETTI 1994
Eirenis coronella fennelli — MAHLOW et al. 2013

Eirenis coronella ibrahimi SIVAN & WERNER 2003
Eirenis coronella ibrahimi — MAHLOW et al. 2013 
DistributionJordan, Syria, Egypt (Sinai), Iraq, W Iran, N/NE Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel

coronella: Iran, Syria, Israel; Type locality: Syria (restricted by SCHMIDT 1939)

fennelli: Saudi Arabia; Type locality: Khulays, 22°09'N, 39°19'E, 150 m elevation.

ibrahimi: Egypt (Sinai);  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesNeotype: HUJ 8410, designated by SIVAN & WERNER (2003)
Holotype: ZSM 1928/0, adult [Eirenis fasciatus]
Holotype: HUJ R 8645, Adult male [ibrahimi]
Holotype: BMNH 1982.224 (A.A. Farrag, 1979) [fennelli]
Syntypes: ZISP [Contia brevicauda] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (subgenus Pediophis): Nagy et al. 2003: 161


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CommentType species: Calamaria coronella Schlegel, 1837 is the type species of the subgenus Pediophis FITZINGER 1843. The subgeneric allocation of this species remains unclear because NAGY et al. (2004) did not have any DNA available for analysis, but they speculate that it probably belongs to Pediophis.

Synonymy: partly after ARNOLD 1982. Homalosoma coronelloides JAN 1862 has been synonymized with this species previously.

Distribution: See map in Sivan & Werner 2003: Fig. 2. Previous authors included Eirenis coronella coronelloides as a subspecies (e.g. GRUBER 2009) which occurs in Turkey and thus would make this a European species. Eirenis fasciatus is on the Sinai but not in the rest of Egypt fide Schmidt & Marx 1956. For a map see Sindaco et al. 2013 and Bar et al. 2021. In Qatar fide Wikipedia. 
EtymologyEtymology (fennelli): Named after the late Mr and Mrs F. Fennell who collected one of the paratypes and encouraged the collection of more.

E. c. ibrahimi has been named after Dr. Adel A. Ibrahim of the Suez Canal University, North Sinai, Egypt, in recognition of his continual painstaking contribution to the knowledge of the herpetofauna of Sinai. 
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