Lytorhynchus gasperetti LEVITON, 1977

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Leviton's Leafnose Snake
Synonym	Lytorhynchus gasperetti LEVITON 1977: 17 Lytorhynchus gasperetti — GASPERETTI 1988: 250 Lytorhynchus gasperetti — WALLACH et al. 2014: 416
Distribution	Saudi Arabia Type locality: Khasawiyah (16°56'N, 42°37'E), Saudi Arabia
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: CAS 134150 Paratype: CAS 136477
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: A member of the "diadema" group of the genus (Leviton and Anderson, 1970,p. 257) having the rostral broadly truncate, as broad at its base as its width at its anterior-most projection; color pattern consisting of 1) a vertebral row of 33 longitudinally rectangular white bars, each narrowly edged by black and connected to one another by a middorsal series of lighter brownish blotches (most prominent on the anterior half of the body), 2) a lateral row of brownish blotches, each lateral blotch centered beneath thewhite vertebral bar and 3) a ventrolateral series of smaller dark blotches on theouter two scale rows that alternate inposition with the lateral markings; dorsal scales moderately keeled; ventrals: male 157, female 165 (Leviton 1977). Additional details (3177 characters) are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment
Etymology	named after the collector of the type, John Gasperetti (1920-2001), engineer and surveyor of various companies and governments in the Middle East and Field Associate of the Department of Herpetology of the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Egan, D. 2007. Snakes of Arabia. Motivate Publishing, Dubai, 208 pp. 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 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.
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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