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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesG: Balkan-Springnatter, Kaspische Pfeilnatter
Croatian: žuta poljarica
Russian: Желтобрюхий полоз 
SynonymColuber caspius GMELIN in LINNAEUS 1789
Coluber acontistes PALLAS 1814
Coluber thermalis PALLAS 1814
Coluber caspius — BERTHOLD 1840: 50
Coluber caspius eiselti ZINNER 1972
Coluber jugularis caspius — WÜTSCHERT 1984
Coluber jugularis caspius — NÖLLERT et al. 1986
Coluber caspius —SCHÄTTI & WILSON 1986
Hierophis caspius — SCHÄTTI 1988
Hierophis caspius — ENGELMANN 1993
Coluber jugularis caspius — JESSAT 1998
Coluber caspius — SZCZERBAK 2003
Coluber caspius — VAN DER VOORT 2004
Hierophis caspius — NAGY et al. 2004
Hierophis caspius — KUMLUTAS et al. 2004
Dolichophis caspius — NAGY et al. 2004
Coluber (s.l.) caspius — VENCHI & SINDACO 2006
Dolichophis caspius — NAGY 2010 (pers. comm.)
Dolichophis caspius — WALLACH et al. 2014: 241
Hierophis caspius — KLENINA 2015
Dolichophis cf. caspius — RHADI et al. 2017
Hierophis caspius — AKHMEDENOV et al. 2019
Hierophis caspius — BAKIEV et al. 2020
Hierophis caspius — TSELLARIUS 2021 
DistributionAlbania, Bulgaria, Greece (Syphnos, Lesbos, Limnos, Samothraki, Chios, Samos, Corfu = Corfou, Andros, Tinos etc.), Croatia, Serbia, MonteNegro, Macedonia, Romania, Turkey,
Soviet Union: Moldova, S Ukraine, S Russia, Kazakhstan, Republic of Georgia,
Jordan [Werner 1988], Iran, Iraq (?),
S Hungary (Szársomlyó mountains)

Type locality: “steppes of Jaiki, lower basin of the urals”
restricted by Mertens & Müller (1928)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesType: nondesignated, present location unknown (fide V. Wallach, pers. comm.)
Holotype: NMW 18618: 1; paratype: NMW 18618:3 [eiselti]
Holotype: ZFMK 92945 [zinneri] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1113 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentSynonymy partly after KHALIKOV & ANANJEVA (pers. comm.)

Type species: Coluber caspius GMELIN in LINNAEUS 1789 is the type species of the genus Dolichophis GISTEL 1868.

Subspecies: Coluber caspius eiselti ZINNER 1972 was coined in a thesis and thus considered as “unpublished” by most subsequent authors (Ščerbak & Böhme, 1993).

Hybridization: D. caspius and D. jugularis may have hybridized in the past (Javorčík et al. 2024)

Distribution: some old reports from Hungary actually represent Zamenis longissimus (Babocsay 2013). For a map see Sindaco et al. 2013. 
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