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Platyceps florulentus (GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE, 1827)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
SubspeciesPlatyceps florulentus florulentus (GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE 1827)
Platyceps florulentus keniensis (PARKER 1932)
Platyceps florulentus perreti (SCHÄTTI 1988) 
Common NamesE: Flowered Racer, Geoffroys’ Racer
G: Ägyptische Zornnatter 
SynonymColuber florulentus GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE 1827: 146, 151
Zamenis florulentus — DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 693
Zamenis florulentus — BOULENGER 1893: 402
Zamenis florulentus — CALABRESI 1925: 106
Zamenis florulentus — SCORTECCI 1931: 17
Coluber florulentus — LOVERIDGE 1936
Coluber florulentus florulentus — LOVERIDGE 1955
Coluber florulentus —SCHÄTTI & WILSON 1986
Haemorrhois florulentus — MEIRTE 1992
Coluber florulentus — LARGEN & RASMUSSEN 1993
Haemorrhois florulentus — LEBRETON 1999
Platyceps florulentus — NAGY et al. 2004
Platyceps florulentus — SCHLÜTER 2005
Platyceps florulentus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 564
Platyceps florulentus — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 478
Platyceps florulentus — TRAPE 2023: 614

Platyceps florulentus keniensis (PARKER 1932)
Coluber keniensis PARKER 1932: 220
Coluber keniensis — SCHÄTTI & WILSON 1986
Coluber florulentus keniensis — SCHÄTTI 1988: 98
Haemorrhois florulentus keniensis — MEIRTE 1992

Platyceps florulentus perreti (SCHÄTTI 1988)
Coluber florulentus perreti SCHÄTTI 1988: 100
Haemorrhois florulentus perreti — CHIRIO & LEBRETON 2007
Platyceps florulentus perreti — TRAPE & BALDÉ 2014: 323
Platyceps perreti — SCHÄTTI 2014: 384
Platyceps florulentus perreti — TRAPE 2023: 614 
DistributionEgypt (North Sinai [HR 32: 59]), Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), Republic of South Sudan (RSS), Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Cameroon

keniensis: Type locality: Lake Baringo

perreti: Cameroon, Nigeria; Type locality: “Soulede, Mokolo, N Kamerun”

Type locality: Egypt  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: lost (probably, fide SCHÄTTI 1988).
Holotype: MHNG 1464.45, male; paratypes: BMNH 1975.1074 [juv., probably from Bambour (Bambur) area, Nigeria], BMNH 1975.1141-42 (juv. female and ad. female, Bambour), USNM 125691 (female, Marama, Nigeria), ZFMK 18686 [juv. female, Benoue (Garoua), Kamerun]. [perreti]
Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.13.87 (orig. 1932.5.2.7), collected by E.B. Worthington, 1930 [keniensis] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis (perreti). A subspecies of C. florulentus distinguished from the nominate race by 25 (instead of 21-23) dorsal scale rows at midbody. It differs from f. florulentus and f. keniensis in higher ventral counts (219 versus 214 or fewer in males, 226-231 against 205-228 in females), and more maxillary teeth (16-17 instead of 15 or less).


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CommentDistribution: Not explicitely listed by SCHLEICH, KÄSTLE & KABISCH 1996. The author is “GEOFFROY 1809: 67” fide DUMÉRIL et al. 1854. Reports from Libya represent Hemorrhois algirus or possibly P. rogersi (Bauer et al. 2017). For a map see Sindaco et al. 2013.

Subspecies: Schätti 2014: 384 elevated perreti to full species. However, the only difference he mentions is that perreti has 25 dorsals (vs. 27-29 in the Platyceps florulentus complex) 
EtymologyP. f. keniensis was named after its type locality in Kenya.

P. f. perreti was named after Swiss herpetologist Jean-Luc Perret (1925-2023). 
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