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Platyceps gallagheri SCHÄTTI, TILLACK, STUTZ & KUCHARZEWSKI, 2024

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Gallagher’s Cliff Racer 
SynonymPlatyceps gallagheri SCHÄTTI, TILLACK, STUTZ & KUCHARZEWSKI 2024

Zamenis ventrimaculatus — Blanford 1876: 415 (part.)
Zamenis Karelinii [sic] – Bedriaga 1879: 44
Zamenis ventrimaculatus [sic] var. karelini – Boettger 1888: 930
Zamenis ladacensis – Boulenger 1890: [324] 326
Zamenis rhodorhachis [sic] – Boulenger 1893: 381ff [partim]
Zamenis karelinii [sic] – Anderson 1896: 82, 86, 90
Coluber karelinii [sic] – Corkill & Cochrane 1966: 483
Coluber karelini – Gasperetti 1974: 15
Coluber karelini – Gasperetti 1977: 5
Coluber karelini – Leviton & Aldrich 1984: xxiii
Coluber karelini – Gasperetti 1988: [216] 218, 404
Coluber r. rhodorhachis [sic] – Gasperetti 1988: 219, fig. 28 [partim]
Platyceps cf. rhodorachis – Schätti et al. 2012: 458
Platyceps rhodorachis – Sindaco et al. 2013: 130, map 84 [partim]
Platyceps r. rhodorachis – Gardner 2013: 367, map [partim]
Platyceps rhodorachis – Carranza et al. 2021: 164 [partim]
Platyceps rhodorachis – Burriel-Carranza et al. 2022: 14, map [partim] 
DistributionOman

Type locality: near Khasab, Musandam, 26°11’N 56°15’E, Sultanate of Oman, “c. 80 m” above sea level.  
Reproduction 
TypesHolotype: BMNH 1980.222, ad. ♀, coll. G.P. Walker 21st April 1980, leg. M.D. Gallagher, MDG 5997). Paratype: ZMB 10324 (“Masandim” [register entry], viz. “Cape Massandim” [Ras Musandam, Blanford, 1876], Sultanate of Oman, ad. ♀, leg. W.T. Blanford, 1871, see Distribution and Remarks). 
Diagnosis 
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References
  • Schätti, B., Tillack, F., Stutz, A., & Kucharzewski, C. 2024. Three new cliff racer species from the Sultanate of Oman (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubrinae) and zoogeographic traits of its herpetofauna. Revue suisse de Zoologie, 131(2), 451-486 - get paper here
 
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