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Eirenis rothii JAN, 1863

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Roth's Dwarf Racer
G: Roths Zwergnatter 
SynonymEirenis rothii JAN 1863
Ablabes rothi — BOETTGER 1880: 143
Contia Rothii — WERNER 1898: 221
Eirenis rothi — BARAN 1978: 264
Eirenis rothi — SCHMIDTLER 1988
Eirenis (Pediophis) rothi — NAGY et al. 2004
Eirenis rothii — WALLACH et al. 2014: 260
Eirenis rothii — GENIEZ 2018: 139
Eirenis rothii — MEIRI et al. 2019 
DistributionIsrael, Palestine (West Bank), Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan

Type locality: Jerusalem, Israel  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZSM 75/0, adult 
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CommentDistribution: For a map see Sindaco et al. 2013 and Bar et al. 2021.

similar species: Eirenis occidentalis 
EtymologyNamed after Johannes Rudolph Roth (1814-1858), a naturalist, botanist, entomologist, and malacologist, and a member of Akademie der Bildenden Kiinste München. 
References
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  • 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
  • Bar, Aviad and Guy Haimovitch 2012. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Israel. Pazbar LTD, 246 pp. - get paper here
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  • Baran,I. 1978. Some rare species of snakes from Turkey. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums, Wien 81 [1977]: 261-265 - get paper here
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  • Berger-Dell'mour, H. 1986. Zur Herpetofauna des Golan [Syria]. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. in Wien (Ser. B) 87: 59-67. - get paper here
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  • Schmidtler, J.F. 1988. Eirenis barani n.sp. aus dem mediterranen Süden der Türkei. Salamandra 24 (4): 203-214 - 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
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  • 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
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