Macroprotodon brevis (GÜNTHER, 1862)
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Macroprotodon brevis
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| Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Serpentes (snakes) |
| Subspecies | Macroprotodon brevis brevis (GÜNTHER 1862) Macroprotodon brevis ibericus BUSACK & MCCOY 1990 |
| Common Names | Western False Smooth Snake, Iberian False Smooth Snake |
| Synonym | Coronella brevis GÜNTHER 1862: 58 Macroprotodon maroccanus PETERS 1882: 27 Macroprotodon cucullatus brevis — BAUER et al. 1995: 72 Macroprotodon brevis — CARRANZA et al. 2004 Macroprotodon brevis — MONTORI et al. 2005 Macroprotodon brevis — SPEYBROECK 2007 Macroprotodon brevis — SCHLÜTER 2009 Macroprotodon brevis ibericus BUSACK & MCCOY 1990 Macroprotodon cucullatus ibericus — MALKMUS 1995 Macroprotodon cucullatus ibericus — VAND ER VOORT 2004 Macroprotodon brevis ibericus — CARRANZA et al. 2004 |
| Distribution | Morocco, Gibraltar Type locality: “small Island (without name) off the coast of Mogador”. ibericus: Iberian Peninsula, Portugal (but WADE 1988 states that this area is inhabited by cucullatus), Spain Map legend:  - Region according to the TDWG standard, not a precise distribution map.NOTE: TDWG regions are generated automatically from the text in the distribution field and not in every cases it works well. We are working on it. |
| Types | BMNH |
| Comment | Illustration of M. c. brevis in Schlüter (2004). CARRANZA et al. (2004) recognizes 4 species of Macroprotodon: M. cucullatus, M. brevis, M. mauritanicus, and M. abubakeri WADE 2001. They also recognized the subspecies M. b. brevis and M. b. ibericus and M. c. cucullatus and M. c. textilis while WADE (2001) synonymizes ibericus with brevis. In fact, CARRANZA et al. (2004) suggested that the textilis clade is paraphyletic with brevis and both could be renamed “textilis” as this is the older name. Not in Mauritania fide Padial (pers. comm.). |
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