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Lytorhynchus kennedyi SCHMIDT, 1939

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Kennedy's Leafnose Snake 
SynonymLytorhynchus kennedyi SCHMIDT 1939: 75
Lytorhynchus kennedyi — MARX 1958
Lytorhynchus kennedyi — GASPERETTI 1988: 248
Lytorhynchus diadema kennedyi — LEVITON et al. 1992
Lytorhynchus kennedyi — MARTENS 1993
Lytorhynchus diadema kennedyi — SCHLEICH et al. 1996
Lytorhynchus kennedyi — SINDACO et al. 2006
Lytorhynchus kennedyi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 416
Lytorhynchus kennedyi — MORADI et al. 2023 
DistributionSyria, Jordan, probably in SW Iraq, Saudi Arabia

Type locality: Syria, between Homs and Palmyra.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: FMNH 19586 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Allied to L. diadema, but with widely spaced black dorsal crossbars; preoculars three on each side; 10 lower labials [from SCHMIDT 1939].


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CommentDistribution: not in Iraq fide Habeeb & Rastegar-Pouyani 2016. For a map see Sindaco et al. 2013. 
Etymologynamed after Dr. Walter P. Kennedy, of the Royal College of Medicine, Baghdad, who has contributed important material to the author’s collections. 
References
  • Al-Quran, S. 2009. The Herpetofauna of the Southern Jordan. American-Eurasian J. Agric. & Environ. Sci., 6 (4): 385-391 [dubious journal]
  • Alshammari, A. M. 2022. Four New Records of Snake Species in Ar'ar Region, Northern Border of Saudi Arabia. Jordan Journal of Natural History, 9(1), 41-48 - get paper here
  • ALSHAMMARI, AHMED MOHAJJA. 2021. First record of Kennedy’s Leafnose Snake, Lytorhynchus kennedyi (Squamata: Colubridae), for Saudi Arabia. Herpetology Notes 14: 1273–1275. - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Gasperetti,J. 1988. Snakes of Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 9: 169-450
  • Leviton A E 1977. A new lytorhynchid snake. JOURNAL OF THE SAUDI ARABIAN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY (No. 19): 16-25
  • Leviton,A.E.; Anderson,S.C.; Adler, K.; Minton,S.A. 1992. Handbook to Middle East Amphibians and Reptiles. SSAR, Oxford, Ohio (Contr. to Herpetol. No. 8), 1-252
  • Martens, H. 1993. Three species of snake new for Syria. Zoology in the Middle East 9: 49-58 - 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
  • Schleich, H.H., Kästle,W., Kabisch, K. 1996. Amphibians and Reptiles of North Africa. Koeltz, Koenigstein, 627 pp.
  • Schmidt,K.P. 1939. Reptiles and amphibians from Southwestern Asia. Publ. Field Mus. nat. Hist., zool. Ser., 24: 49-92 - 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, R.; Serra, G. & Menegon, M. 2006. New data on the Syrian herpetofauna with a newly-recorded species of snake. Zoology of the Middle-East 37: 29-38 - 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
  • Torki, Farhang 2017. Description of a new species of Lytorhynchus (Squamata: Colubridae) from Iran. Zoology in the Middle East 63 (2): 109, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2017.1299319 - 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.
 
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