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Lytorhynchus ridgewayi BOULENGER, 1887

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Derafshi Snake 
SynonymLytorhynchus ridgewayi BOULENGER 1887: 413
Lytorhynchus ridgewayi — BOULENGER 1893: 415
Lytorhynchus ridgewayi var. roseni ELPATJEWSKI & SABANEJEW 1906
Lytorhynchus gabrielis WERNER 1938: 268
Lytorhynchus ridgewayi — SMITH 1943: 190
Lytorhynchus ridgewayi — LEVITON 1959: 456
Lytorhynchus ridgewayi — FRYNTA et al. 1997
Lytorhynchus ridgewayi — ANANJEVA et al. 2006
Lytorhynchus ridgewayi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 416
Lytorhynchus ridgewayi — KAMALI 2020
Lytorhynchus ridgewayi — MORADI et al. 2023 
DistributionS/SW Turkmenistan, S Uzbekistan, E Iran, W Afghanistan, SW Pakistan

Type locality: Chinkilok, Afghanistan  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesTypes: BMNH 1946.1.14.77-78 (and possibly additional specimens). 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Leviton 1970: 273


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CommentSynonymy after SMITH 1943.

Distribution: For a map see Sindaco et al. 2013. 
EtymologyNamed after Colonel Sir Joseph West Ridgeway (1844-1930), the senior British officer on the Russian-Afghan Boundary Commission (1885-1899), when it seemed probable that Russia would attack British India via Afghanistan. 
References
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  • Boulenger, G. A. 1887. Description of a new snake from Afghanistan. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (5) 20: 413-414 - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. London (Taylor & Francis), 448 pp. - get paper here
  • Dunaev E.A., Orlova V.F. 2003. Diversity of snakes (on the materials of the exposition of the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University). Moscow: Moscow State University Press, 376 pp
  • Frynta,D. et al. 1997. Results of the Czech biological expedition to Iran. Part 1. Notes on the distribution of amphibians and reptiles. Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 61: 3-17
  • 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
  • Kamali, Kamran 2020. A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Iran. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (www.chimaira.de). 574 pp.
  • Leviton A E 1977. A new lytorhynchid snake. JOURNAL OF THE SAUDI ARABIAN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY (No. 19): 16-25
  • Leviton, A.E. 1959. Systematics and Zoogeography of Philippine Snakes. Unpublished PhD Thesis.
  • Leviton, Alan E. 1959. Report on a collection of reptiles from Afghanistan. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 29 (12): 445-463 - get paper here
  • Moradi, N., Shafiei Bafti, S., Sehhatisabet, M. E., Zadhoush, B. and Rastegar-Pouyani, E. 2023. Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Lytorhynchus Peters, 1863 (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae) with special reference to the Iranian taxa. Journal of Animal Diversity, 5 (4): 15–31 - get paper here
  • Rajabizadeh, M. 2018. Snakes of Iran. [in Farsi] Tehran: Iranshenasi, 496 pp. [2017 ?] - get paper here
  • RASTEGAR-POUYANI, NASRULLAH; HAJI GHOLI KAMI, MEHDI RAJABZADEH, SOHEILA SHAFIEI AND STEVEN CLEMENT ANDERSON 2008. Annotated Checklist of Amphibians and Reptiles of Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 4 (1): 7-30
  • Shestopal A. A., Shcherbina A. A. 2024. Distribution of reptiles in Northwestern Turkmenistan. [in Russian] Current Studies in Herpetology 24 (1-2): 102 - get paper here
  • Shestopal A., Amanov A., Ovezov T. 2021. An overview of reptiles from the Kaplankyr Nature Reserve and adjacent territories. [in Russian] Proc. Inst. Zool., Kazakhstan, pp. 105-126 - 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
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  • Werner, F. 1938. Reptilien aus Iran und Belutschistan. Zool. Anz. 121: 265—271
 
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