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Eirenis lineomaculatus SCHMIDT, 1939

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesG: Längsgepunktete Zwergnatter 
SynonymEirenis lineomaculata SCHMIDT 1939: 80
Eirenis lineomaculata — ESTERBAUER 1985
Eirenis lineomaculata — WELCH
Eirenis (Pediophis) lineomaculatus — NAGY et al. 2004
Eirenis (Pediophis) lineomaculatus — MAHLOW et al. 2013: 55
Eirenis lineomaculatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 258
Eirenis lineomaculatus — MEIRI et al. 2019
Eirenis lineomaculata — AIDEK et al. 2023
Eirenis lineomaculatus — KHASHAB et al. 2026 
DistributionTurkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine (West Bank), Jordan

Type locality: Jordan valley, Palestine [Israel]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: FMNH 21909
Holotype: BMNH, paratypes: BMNH [fennelli] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Distinguished from Eirenis coronella by having seventeen scale rows, a lower number of ventrals, no loreal, and dorsal spots arranged as alternate longitudinal dashes [from SCHMIDT 1939].


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CommentDistribution: For a map see Sindaco et al. 2013 and Bar et al. 2021. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin linea, a thread-like strokeormark and Latin maculatus, spotted. 
References
  • Aidek, Ahmad E.; Yarman Omran, Ulrich Joger, Hans Esterbauer, Mohammad A. Abu Baker, and Zuhair S. Amr 2023. Snakes of the Syrian Arab Republic. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt Am Main, 128 pp.
  • Al-Quran, S. 2009. The Herpetofauna of the Southern Jordan. American-Eurasian J. Agric. & Environ. Sci., 6 (4): 385-391 [dubious journal]
  • Albaba I 2016. The herpetofauna of Palestine: A preliminary checklist. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 4(4): 123-128 [note: this appears to be a predatory journal with little if any peer review] - get paper here
  • Arnold E N 1982. Reptiles of Saudi Arabia. A new semaphore gecko (Pristurus: Gekkonidae) and a new dwarf snake (Eirenis: Colubridae) from southwestern Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 4: 468-477
  • Bar, A., Haimovitch, G. and Meiri, S. 2021. Field guide to the amphibians and reptiles of Israel. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt Am Main. ISBN 9783-89973-120-0 - get paper here
  • Baran, I. 1976. Türkiye yilanlarinin taksonomik revizyonu ve cografi dagilislari [Turkish Snakes]. TBTAK Ankara, 177 pp.
  • Baran, I. 1982. Zur Taxonomie der Schlangen in Südost- und Ost-Anatolien. Spixiana 5 (1): 51-59 - get paper here
  • Disi, A.M.; Modry, D.; Nečas, P. & Rifai, L. 2001. Amphibians and reptiles of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 408 pp.
  • Esterbauer, H. 1985. Zur Herpetofauna Südwestsyriens. Herpetofauna 7 (38): 23-34 - get paper here
  • Esterbauer, Hans 2015. Habitat- und Terrarienbeobachtungen an Zwergnattern der Gattung Eirenis aus Südwestsyrien. Terraria-Elaphe 2015 (5): 34-41 - get paper here
  • Geniez, Philippe 2018. Snakes of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Princeton University Press, 384 pp. - get paper here
  • Gruber, U. 2009. Die Schlangen Europas, 2. Aufl. Kosmos Naturführer, 266 pp.
  • Handal, Elias N.; Zuhair S. Amr, Mazin B. Qumsiyeh 2016. Some Records of Reptiles from the Palestinian Territories. Russ. J. Herpetol. 23 (4): 261-270 - get paper here
  • Hraoui-Bloquet, S.; Sadek, R.A.; Sindaco, R. & Venchi, A. 2002. The herpetofauna of Lebanon: new data on distribution. Zoology in the Middle East 27: 35-46 - get paper here
  • Khashab, R., de las Heras, B., Akl, S., Mershed, J., Sadek, R. A., & Jablonski, D. 2026. On the desert edge: the first record of Platyceps rogersi (Anderson, 1893) from Lebanon and an updated checklist of colubrid snakes. Check List, 22(3), 496-503 - get paper here
  • Mahlow, Kristin; Frank Tillack, Josef Friedrich Schmidtler & Johannes Müller 2013. An annotated checklist, description and key to the dwarf snakes of the genus Eirenis Jan, 1863 (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae), with special emphasis on the dentition. Vertebrate Zoology 63 (1): 41–85 - get paper here
  • Meiri, Shai; Amos Belmaker, Daniel Berkowic, Kesem Kazes, Erez Maza, Guy Bar-Oz and Roi Dor 2019. A checklist of Israeli land vertebrates. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution - get paper here
  • Nagy, Z.T., J.F. Schmidtler, U. Joger & M. Wink 2003. Systematik der Zwergnattern (Reptilia: Colubridae: Eirenis) und verwandter Gruppen anhand von DNA-Sequenzen und morphologischen Daten. Salamandra 39 (3-4): 149-168 - get paper here
  • Schätti B. & Monsch, P. 2004. Systematics and phylogenetic relationships of Whip snakes (Hierophis Fitzinger) and Zamenis andreana Werner 1917 (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubrinae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 111 (2): 239-256 - get paper here
  • Schmidt,K.P. 1939. Reptiles and amphibians from Southwestern Asia. Publ. Field Mus. nat. Hist., zool. Ser., 24: 49-92 - get paper here
  • Schmidtler, J.J. & Schmidtler,J. F. 1978. Eine neue Zwergnatter aus der Türkei; mit einer Übersicht über die Gattung Eirenis (Colubridae,Rept.). Ann. Naturh. Mus. Wien 81: 383-400 - get paper here
  • SHWAYAT, SUHA N.; AHMAD M. DISI & ZUHAIR S. AMR 2009. Snakes of the genus Eirenis in Jordan (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae). Vertebrate Zoology 59 (1): 91-101 - 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; Alberto Venchi, Giuseppe M. Carpaneto, Marco A. Bologna 2000. The Reptiles of Anatolia: a Checklist and Zoogeographical analysis. Biogeographia, 21-2000: 441-554. - get paper here
  • Venchi, Alberto and Roberto Sindaco 2006. Annotated checklist of the reptiles of the Mediterranean countries, with keys to species identification. Part 2 -Snakes (Reptilia, Serpentes). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "G. Doria", Genova, XCVIII: 259-364
  • 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.
 
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