Platyceps insulanus (MERTENS, 1965)
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Higher Taxa | Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
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Common Names | E: Sarso Island Racer |
Synonym | Coluber insulanus MERTENS 1965 Coluber insulanus —SCHÄTTI & WILSON 1986 Coluber insulanus — GASPERETTI 1988: 215 Platyceps insulanus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 554 |
Distribution | Saudi Arabia (Sarso Island, Farasan Archipelago, Red Sea)
Type locality: "Insel Sarso, Farsan-Archipel, Rotes Meer, SW-Arabien."
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Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Holotype: SMF 60027, a 910+ mm male (W. Kost, 26 Nov. 1964). |
Diagnosis | |
Comment | Status unclear. Not mentioned in recent checklists (e.g. Leviton et al. 1992). Not mentioned for Arabia by Egan 2007. Only known from the holotype. |
References |
- Egan, D. 2007. Snakes of Arabia. Motivate Publishing, Dubai, 208 pp.
- Gasperetti,J. 1988. Snakes of Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 9: 169-450
- Masseti, Marco 2014. Herpetological enigmas from the Arabian seas, with particular reference to the Sarso Island Racer, Platyceps insulanus Mertens, 1965 (Farasan Archipelago, Saudi Arabia). Pp. 99-116. In: M. Capula and C. Corti (eds.) Scripta Herpetologica: Studies on Amphibians and reptiles in honour of Benedetto Lanza. Edizioni Belvedere, Latina
- Mertens,R. 1965. Eine neue Natter von einer Insel des roten Meeres. Senckenbergiana biologica 46: 5-9
- Schätti B; Wilson L D 1986. Coluber Linnaeus. Holarctic racers. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles ( 399: 1-4 - 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.
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