Platyceps atayevi (TUNIYEV & SHAMMAKOV, 1993)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names
Synonym	Coluber atayevi TUNIYEV & SHAMMAKOV 1993 Platyceps atayevi — NAGY et al. 2004 Platyceps najadum atayevi — SCHÄTTI et al. 2005 Platyceps najadum atayevi — VENCHI & SINDACO 2006: 286 Platyceps atayevi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 564 Platyceps atayevi — ZAHER et al. 2019
Distribution	Turkmenistan (Kopet-Dag Mountains), probably Iran. Type locality: “environs of Saivan Village, Saivan- Nokhur Plateau, western Kopet-Dag, Bakharden Region,Turkmenistan”
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: SNP (given as Collection of the Caucasian Reserve, Sochi, Russia), No. 420, adult male, 12 May 1991, collected by B. S. Tuniyev
Diagnosis
Comment	Synonymy: Coluber atayevi has been synonymized with C. najadum by TOKAR et al. (1995) but considered as a valid species by more recent authors. Similar species: See also P. najadum.
References	Nagy, Z.T.; R. Lawson, U. Joger, M. Wink 2004. Molecular systematics of racers, whipsnakes and relatives (Reptilia: Colubridae) using mitochondrial and nuclear markers. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 42 (3): 223-233 - get paper here Schatti, B., Stutz,A. & Chavret, C. 2005. Morphologie, Verbreitung und Systematik der Schlanknatter Platyceps najadum (Eichwald, 1831) (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubrinae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 112 (3): 573-625 - get paper here Tuniyev B S; Shammakov S M 1993. Coluber atayevi sp. nov. (Ophidia, Colubridae) from the Kopet-Dag Mountains of Turkmenistan. Asiatic Herpetological Research 5: 1-10 - get paper here Venchi, Alberto and Roberto Sindaco 2006. Annotated checklist of the reptiles of the Mediterranean countries, with keys to species identification. Part 2 -Snakes (Reptilia, Serpentes). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "G. Doria", Genova, XCVIII: 259-364 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. Zaher H, Murphy RW, Arredondo JC, Graboski R, Machado-Filho PR, Mahlow K, et al. 2019. Large-scale molecular phylogeny, morphology, divergence-time estimation, and the fossil record of advanced caenophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes). PLoS ONE 14(5): e0216148 - get paper here
External links	National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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