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Walterinnesia morgani (MOCQUARD, 1905)

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Higher TaxaElapidae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common Names 
SynonymNaja morgani MOCQUARD 1905
Atractaspis wilsoni WALL 1908: 804
Naia morgani — BOULENGER 1920
Walterinnesia morgani — NILSON & RASTEGAR-POUYANI 2007
Walterinnesia morgani — WALLACH et al. 2014: 793
Walterinnesia aegyptia morgani — RAJABIZADEH 2018 
DistributionSyria, W Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, S Turkey (Urfa), Kuwait, Qatar

Type locality: “Arabistan, Perse” = Khuzestan, Iran.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesSyntypes: MNHN-RA 1904.0562-0566 (5 specimens) 
DiagnosisDiagnosis. Juvenile pattern with 25 to 33 reddish crossbars on a black body (Figs. 2 – 3) and a significantly lower and non-overlapping number of anterior dorsal scale rows in both sexes. Further, lower number of subcaudals and ventrals in both sexes, lower number of united subcaudals in females. (Nilson & Rastegar-Pouyani 2007) 
CommentVenomous!

Synonymy: Has been considered as a synonym of Walterinnesia aegyptia until recently.

Distribution: Nilson & Rastegar-Pouyani recognise the eastern form as a distinct species of Walterinnesia, Walterinnesia morgani (Mocquard, 1905). Not in the United Arab Emirates fide Burriel-Carranza et al. 2019. For maps see Sindaco et al. 2013, Shafiei-Bafti et al. 2023. In Qatar fide Wikipedia. 
EtymologyNamed after the collector of type specimens, “M. Morgan”. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Fathnia, B.; N. Rastegar Pouyani; H. Darvishnia; M. Rajabzadeh 2010. The snake fauna of Ilam Province, southwestern Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 6 (1) - get paper here
  • Geniez, Philippe 2018. Snakes of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Princeton University Press, 384 pp. - get paper here
  • Gholamifard A, Şahin MK 2023. Range dynamics of Walterinnesia morgani (Serpentes, Elapidae) during climatic oscillations in Iran. Herpetozoa 36: 317-324 - get paper here
  • Göcmen, B.; Franzen, M.; Yilidz, M.Z.; Akman, B. & Yalcinkaya, D. 2009. New locality records of eremial snake species in southeastern Turkey (Ophidia: Colubridae, Elapidae, Typhlopidae, Leptotyphlopidae). Salamandra 45 (2): 110-114 - get paper here
  • Mocquard, M.F. 1905. Diagnoses de quelques espèces nouvelles de Reptiles. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, 11:76-79 - get paper here
  • Nilson, Göran and Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani. 2007. Walterinnesia aegyptia Lataste, 1887 (Ophidia: Elapidae) and the status of Naga morgani Mocquard 1905. Russ. J. Herpetol. 14 (1):7-14 - 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
  • Shafiei Bafti, S., Sehhatisabet, M. E. and Moradi, N. 2023. A range extension of Walterinnesia morgani (Mocquard, 1905) (Reptilia: Squamata: Elapidae) to Southeastern Iran. Journal of Animal Diversity 5 (3): 19–25 - 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
  • Sindaco, Roberto; Riccardo Nincheri, Benedetto Lanza 2014. Catalogue of Arabian reptiles in the collections of the “La Specola” Museum, Florence. Scripta Herpetologica. Studies on Amphibians and Reptiles in honour of Benedetto Lanza: pp. 137-164 - get paper here
  • Wall,F. 1908. Notes on a collection of snakes from Persia. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 18: 795-805 - get paper here
  • Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
  • Yıldız MZ. 2020. Herpetofauna of Kilis Province (Southeast Anatolia, Turkey). Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 14(2) [General Section]: 145–156 (e242) - get paper here
 
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