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Spalerosophis dolichospilus (WERNER, 1923)

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Werner's Diadem Snake 
SynonymZamenis diadema var. dolichospila WERNER 1923
Coluber diadema dolichospila — WERNER 1929
Spaelosophis diadema dolichospila — SCHMIDT 1930
Coluber Choumowitchi DOMERGUE 1954
Spaelosophis diadema dolichospilus — LANZA 1964
Spalerosophis dolichospilus — PASTEUR 1967
Spalerosophis dolichospilus — SCHLEICH, KÄSTLE & KABISCH 1996: 522
Spalerosophis dolichospilus — VENCHI & SINDACO 2006
Spalerosophis dolichospilus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 683 
DistributionMorocco, Western Sahara, N Algeria, N Tunisia

Type locality: Ain Sefra, Algeria  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: NMW 23418 (m.) 
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CommentDistribution: Werner (1923) originally and erroneously thought that his specimen was from India, but he corrected that in Werner 1929. For a map see Sindaco et al. 2013, Yadollahvandmiandoab at al. 2022: Fig. 3. 
EtymologyNamed after Greek dolikhós = long, far, and Greek spilos = dirt, dirty spot, apparently after the brown spots of this species, speficially the long stripe on its neck. 
References
  • Barata, Mafalda; Ana Perera, D. James Harris, Arie van der Meijden, Salvador Carranza, Francisco Ceacero, Enrique García-Muñoz, Duarte Gonçalves, Sérgio Henriques, Fátima Jorge, Jonathan C. Marshall, Luis Pedrajas and Pedro Sousa 2011. New observations of amphibians and reptiles in Morocco, with a special emphasis on the eastern region. Herpetological Bulletin (116): 4 - get paper here
  • Bouam, I., Abdennebi, A., Chaouch, L. T., Lemoufek, T., Benmokhtar, E., Mebarki, T., ... & Messaoudi, T. 2025. Atlas of the herpetofauna of Batna Province and the Belezma Biosphere Reserve, north-eastern Algeria. Acta Herpetologica - get paper here
  • Damas-Moreira, Isabel, Beatriz Tome, James Harris, Joao P. Maia and Daniele Salvi. 2014. Moroccan herpetofauna: distribution updates. Herpetozoa 27 (1/2): 96-102 - get paper here
  • Domergue, C. 1954. Note sur une nouvelle espèce ophidienne de Tunisie et d’Afrique du Nord: Coluber choumowitchi Domergue. Bull.Soc.Sc.nat.Tunisie 7(1): 37-55
  • Gemel, R.; G. Gassner & S. Schweiger 2019. Katalog der Typen der Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien – 2018. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 33–248 - get paper here
  • Geniez, P.; Mateo, J.A.; Geniez, M. & Pether, J. 2004. The amphibians and reptiles of the Western Sahara (former Spanish Sahara) and adjacent regions. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 228 pp. [reviewed in Reptilia GB 44: 81]
  • Geniez, Philippe 2018. Snakes of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Princeton University Press, 384 pp. - get paper here
  • Gruber, U. 2009. Die Schlangen Europas, 2. Aufl. Kosmos Naturführer, 266 pp.
  • Kane, Daniel; Steve Goodwin, Gerrit Jan Verspui, Anniek Tump, Gabriel Martínez del Mármol Marín 2019. Reptile diversity of southern Morocco: range extensions and the role of the Djebel Ouarkziz as a biogeographical barrier. Herpetology Notes 12: 787-793 - get paper here
  • Kolodziej, K. & Cenker, C. 2010. Unterwegs im Schmelztiegel der Arten - Herping in Marokko. Elaphe 2020 (3): 14-25
  • Lanza, B. 1964. Il genere Sphalerosophis e descrizione di una nuova specie (Reptilia, Serpentes). Monit. zool. ital. 72: 47-64.
  • Martínez del Mármol, Gabriel; D. James Harris, Philippe Geniez, Philip de Pous, and Daniele Salvi 2019. Amphibians and Reptiles of Morocco. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 478 pp - get paper here
  • Marx, H. 1959. Review of the colubrid snake genus Spalerosophis. Fieldiana Zoology 39: 347-361. - get paper here
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  • Pasteur, G. 1967. Un serpent endémique du Maghreb: Sphalerosophis dolichospilus (WERNER), Colubridé. Bull. Mus. nat. Hist. nat., Paris (2 sér.), 39 (3): 444-451 - get paper here
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  • Schleich, H.H., Kästle,W., Kabisch, K. 1996. Amphibians and Reptiles of North Africa. Koeltz, Koenigstein, 627 pp.
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  • 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
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  • Werner,F. 1923. Neue Schlangen des naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Ann. naturh. Mus. Wien 36: 160-166 - get paper here
  • Werner,F. 1929. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Forschungsreise nach Westalgerien und Marokko. Sitzungsb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, math.-naturw. kl., Abt. 1, 138; 1-34 - get paper here
 
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