Platyceps thomasi (PARKER, 1931)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Thomas' Semi-banded Racer G: Thomas’ Zornnatter
Synonym	Coluber thomasi PARKER 1931: 516 Haemorrhois thomasi Coluber thomasi — SCHÄTTI & WILSON 1986 Coluber thomasi — GASPERETTI 1988: 227 Coluber thomasi — VAN DER KOOIJ 2001 Platyceps thomasi — EGAN 2007 Platyceps thomasi — SMID 2010 Platyceps thomasi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 557
Distribution	W Oman, E Yemen Type locality: Ain, Jabal Qara, Dhofar, Sultanate Oman
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.14.73
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1746 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	Distribution: For a map see Sindaco et al. 2013.
Etymology	Named after Bertram Thomas (1892-1950), a civil servant who served during WWl in Belgium and then in Mesopotamia (Iraq) (1916-1918).
References	Arnold E N 1980. The scientific results of the Oman flora and fauna survey 1977 (Dhofar). The reptiles and amphibians of Dhofar, southern Arabia. JOURNAL OF OMAN STUDIES SPECIAL REPORT (No. 2): 273-332 - get paper here Ball, L.D. & Borrell, J.S. 2016. An inventory of herpetofauna from Wadi Sayq, Dhofar, Oman. Journal of Threatened Taxa 8 (12): 9454-9460 - 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 Carranza S, Xipell M, Tarroso P, Gardner A, Arnold EN, Robinson MD, et al. 2018. Diversity, distribution and conservation of the terrestrial reptiles of Oman (Sauropsida, Squamata). PLoS One 13 (2): e0190389 - get paper here Carranza, Salvador; Johannes Els; Bernat Burriel-Carranza 2021. A field guide to the reptiles of Oman. Madrid : Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 223 pp. [review in HR 53 (3): 531] - get paper here Corkill, N. L. and Cochrane, J. A. 1966. The snakes of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 62 (3): 475-506 (1965) - get paper here Egan, D. 2007. Snakes of Arabia. Motivate Publishing, Dubai, 208 pp. Gardner, A.S. 2013. The amphibians and reptiles of Oman and the UAE. Edition Chimaira, 480 pp. Gasperetti,J. 1988. Snakes of Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 9: 169-450 Grossmann, W., Kowalski, T., Zwanzig, B. M., Zilger, H. J. and Gebhart, J. 2020. Herpetological observations in Oman: Al Mughsayl and Wadi Ashawq in Dhofar, Part 1. Amphibia: Anura; Reptilia: Squamata: Sauria. Sauria 42 (1): 1-20. Kowalski, T. & GROSSMANN, W. 2019. Platyceps thomasi (PARKER, 1931) – Thomas’ Zornnatter, Thomas’s Racer. Sauria 41 (3): 1-2 Parker,H.W. 1931. Some reptiles and amphibians from S.E. Arabia. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (10) 8: 514-522 - get paper here Schätti B; Wilson L D 1986. Coluber Linnaeus. Holarctic racers. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 399: 1-4 - 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 van der Kooij, Jeroen 2001. The herpetofauna of the Sultanate of Oman: Part 4: The terrestrial snakes. Podarcis 2 (2): 54-65 - 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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