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Platyceps
''Platyceps'' is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae endemic to Eurasia. Taxonomy The genus was erected in 1860 by Edward Blyth, allying species previously described. The genus name ''Platyceps'' was inadvertently used for a fossil species in 1877, now recognised as ''Platycepsion wilkinsoni''. Species The following 30 species are recognized as being valid. *''Platyceps afarensis'' Schätti & Ineich, 2004 *''Platyceps atayevi'' ( Tuniyev & Shammakov, 1993) *''Platyceps bholanathi'' (Sharma, 1976) *''Platyceps brevis'' (Boulenger, 1895) *''Platyceps collaris'' ( F. Müller, 1878) *''Platyceps elegantissimus'' ( Günther, 1878) *''Platyceps florulentus'' ( I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827) *'' Platyceps gracilis'' *''Platyceps insulanus'' (Mertens, 1965) *''Platyceps josephi'' Deepak, Narayanan, Mohapatra, Dutta, Melvinselvan, Khan, Mahlow & Tillack, 2021 *'' Platyceps karelini'' (Brandt, 1838) *'' Platyceps ladacensis'' (Anderson, 1871) *'' Platyceps largeni'' (Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platyceps Atayevi
''Platyceps'' is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae endemic to Eurasia. Taxonomy The genus was erected in 1860 by Edward Blyth, allying species previously described. The genus name ''Platyceps'' was inadvertently used for a fossil species in 1877, now recognised as ''Platycepsion wilkinsoni''. Species The following 30 species are recognized as being valid. *'' Platyceps afarensis'' Schätti & Ineich, 2004 *'' Platyceps atayevi'' ( Tuniyev & Shammakov, 1993) *''Platyceps bholanathi'' (Sharma, 1976) *'' Platyceps brevis'' (Boulenger, 1895) *''Platyceps collaris'' ( F. Müller, 1878) *''Platyceps elegantissimus'' ( Günther, 1878) *'' Platyceps florulentus'' ( I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827) *'' Platyceps gracilis'' *'' Platyceps insulanus'' (Mertens, 1965) *'' Platyceps josephi'' Deepak, Narayanan, Mohapatra, Dutta, Melvinselvan, Khan, Mahlow & Tillack, 2021 *''Platyceps karelini'' (Brandt, 1838) *'' Platyceps ladacensis'' ( Anderson, 1871) *'' Platyceps large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platyceps Insulanus
''Platyceps'' is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae endemic to Eurasia. Taxonomy The genus was erected in 1860 by Edward Blyth, allying species previously described. The genus name ''Platyceps'' was inadvertently used for a fossil species in 1877, now recognised as ''Platycepsion wilkinsoni''. Species The following 30 species are recognized as being valid. *'' Platyceps afarensis'' Schätti & Ineich, 2004 *''Platyceps atayevi'' ( Tuniyev & Shammakov, 1993) *''Platyceps bholanathi'' (Sharma, 1976) *'' Platyceps brevis'' (Boulenger, 1895) *''Platyceps collaris'' ( F. Müller, 1878) *''Platyceps elegantissimus'' ( Günther, 1878) *'' Platyceps florulentus'' ( I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827) *'' Platyceps gracilis'' *'' Platyceps insulanus'' (Mertens, 1965) *'' Platyceps josephi'' Deepak, Narayanan, Mohapatra, Dutta, Melvinselvan, Khan, Mahlow & Tillack, 2021 *''Platyceps karelini'' (Brandt, 1838) *'' Platyceps ladacensis'' ( Anderson, 1871) *'' Platyceps largen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platyceps Florulentus
''Platyceps'' is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae endemic to Eurasia. Taxonomy The genus was erected in 1860 by Edward Blyth, allying species previously described. The genus name ''Platyceps'' was inadvertently used for a fossil species in 1877, now recognised as ''Platycepsion wilkinsoni''. Species The following 30 species are recognized as being valid. *'' Platyceps afarensis'' Schätti & Ineich, 2004 *''Platyceps atayevi'' ( Tuniyev & Shammakov, 1993) *''Platyceps bholanathi'' (Sharma, 1976) *'' Platyceps brevis'' (Boulenger, 1895) *''Platyceps collaris'' ( F. Müller, 1878) *''Platyceps elegantissimus'' ( Günther, 1878) *'' Platyceps florulentus'' ( I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827) *'' Platyceps gracilis'' *''Platyceps insulanus'' (Mertens, 1965) *'' Platyceps josephi'' Deepak, Narayanan, Mohapatra, Dutta, Melvinselvan, Khan, Mahlow & Tillack, 2021 *''Platyceps karelini'' (Brandt, 1838) *'' Platyceps ladacensis'' ( Anderson, 1871) *'' Platyceps largeni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platyceps Afarensis
''Platyceps'' is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae endemic to Eurasia. Taxonomy The genus was erected in 1860 by Edward Blyth, allying species previously described. The genus name ''Platyceps'' was inadvertently used for a fossil species in 1877, now recognised as ''Platycepsion wilkinsoni''. Species The following 30 species are recognized as being valid. *'' Platyceps afarensis'' Schätti & Ineich, 2004 *''Platyceps atayevi'' ( Tuniyev & Shammakov, 1993) *''Platyceps bholanathi'' (Sharma, 1976) *'' Platyceps brevis'' (Boulenger, 1895) *''Platyceps collaris'' ( F. Müller, 1878) *''Platyceps elegantissimus'' ( Günther, 1878) *''Platyceps florulentus'' ( I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827) *'' Platyceps gracilis'' *''Platyceps insulanus'' (Mertens, 1965) *'' Platyceps josephi'' Deepak, Narayanan, Mohapatra, Dutta, Melvinselvan, Khan, Mahlow & Tillack, 2021 *''Platyceps karelini'' (Brandt, 1838) *'' Platyceps ladacensis'' ( Anderson, 1871) *'' Platyceps largeni' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platyceps Najadum
''Platyceps najadum'', also known commonly as Dahl's whip snake, the slender whip snake, and the Zagros whip snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to Eurasia. Four subspecies are recognized as being valid. Taxonomy ''P. najadum'' was first described by Karl Eichwald in 1831, as ''Tyria najadum''. Geographic range ''P. najadum'' is found in the Balkans, Aegean, Cyprus, the Mid-East, and as far as Turkmenistan and the Caucasus Mountains. Habitat ''P. najadum'' occurs in dry and xeric environments in a wide range of habitats: in desert and rocky land, in forests, woodland scrub, and agricultural land from sea level to altitude. It is commonly found in fields, and seen crushed on roads. Description ''P. najadum'' has a slim body, and is rarely over a metre (39 inches) in total length (including tail). Conservation status ''P. najadum'' is threatened by direct persecution, forest fires and intensive agriculture, where its range interacts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platyceps Brevis
The short racer (''Platyceps brevis''), is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to northeastern Africa. Geographic range ''P. brevis'' is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania.. www.reptile-database.org. Subspecies Two subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies. *''Platyceps brevis brevis'' *'' Playceps brevis smithi'' ''Nota bene'': A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than ''Platyceps''. Reproduction ''P. brevis'' is oviparous. Etymology The subspecific name, ''smithi'', is in honor of American physician Arthur Donaldson Smith Arthur Donaldson Smith (1866–1939) was an American physician, hunter, and explorer of Africa. In the 1890s he made a geological expedition to Lake Rudolph (now Lake Turkana), passing through what was then Somaliland, southern Ethiopia and Kenya ....Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Micha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platycepsion Wilkinsoni
''Platycepsion wilksoni'' is an extinct species of prehistoric amphibian, known from partial skeleton deposited in shale at the Gosford Quarry site of the Terrigal Formation in Australia. Taxonomy The species is assigned to a currently monotypic genus, the synonym ''Platyceps wilkinsonii'', a name published in 1887 by the Australian palaeontologist William Stephens, was nominated as the type. A revision in 1964 by Oskar Kuhn assigned the species to the genus ''Platycepsion'' to replace the earlier combination, which was invalidated by an earlier use of the name ''Platyceps'' for a colubrid genus of snakes. Another revising author John W. Cosgriff named the species as the type for a new genus, ''Blinasaurus'', unaware of Kuhn's replacement of the name, and placed a second species in the same genus, later separated to a new combination as ''Batrachosuchus henwoodi''. The author noted the epithet ''Wilkinsonii'' in the first description as commemorating the deputy chair of the L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platyceps Bholanathi
''Platyceps bholanathi'', also known as the Nagarjun Sagar racer, Nagarjunasagar racer, Nagarjuna racer, Bhola Nath's racer, or Sharma's racer, is a species of colubrid snake. It is found in peninsular India, in the Eastern Ghats and the Deccan Plateau, in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana. It is a rather recently described species, that was first discovered in 1976, in the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam by scientists of the Zoological Survey of India. It is a diurnal, fast-moving, active snake, living among rock boulders. It feeds on lizards, small mammals, and birds. Description A slender snake; rich brown above with white, black-edged rounded or ovoid spots on the back; underside white. Scales: Supralabials 9; loreal 1, preocular 1-2, postocular 2, subpostocular 1 or absent, temporal 2+2 or 2+3; 19 mid body rows; ventral 201-212, anal divided; subcaudal 105-121, paired. Distribution This species is known from Nagarjuna Sagar Dam in Telangana, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platyceps Collaris
The red whip snake or collared dwarf racer (''Platyceps collaris'') is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. Native to the Middle East, its natural habitats are Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, rocky areas, arable land, pastureland, plantations, and rural gardens. Description The red whip snake is a slender, long-tailed snake that grows to a length of in Europe but up to in the eastern part of its range in Asia. It closely resembles Dahl's whip snake but differs in having a smaller, flatter head. The upper surface is reddish-brown or reddish grey, with a dark band with pale margins on the neck and scattered, smaller dark bands with pale rims on the fore-parts, these markings being more widely spaced than those of Dahl's whip snake. Another distinguishing feature is the fact that the scales on the belly of that species have a keel on each side whereas the belly scales on the red whip snake do not. The eye is surrounded by a ring of pale skin and the area of skin in f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coluber Gracilis
''Platyceps gracilis'', commonly known as the graceful racer or slender racer, is a species of snake endemic to India. Description :''See snake scales for terms used'' Snout is obtuse; rostral nearly as deep as broad, just visible from above; suture between the internasals a little shorter than that between the prefrontals; frontal slightly longer than its distance from the end of the snout, nearly as long as the occipitals; loreal nearly as deep as long; one preocular, with a small subocular below 3 two postoculars ; temporals 2+2; 9 upper labials, fifth and sixth entering the eye; 4 or 5 lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields; posterior chin-shields as long as or longer than the anterior, separated anteriorly by two scales. Scales smooth, in 21 rows. Ventrals ungulate laterally, 213–228; anal divided; subcaudals 118–121. Yellowish above, with a series of large round brown spots edged with black, separated by narrow interspaces; these spots become more i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platyceps Elegantissimus
''Platyceps elegantissimus'' is a species of snake of the family Colubridae Colubridae (, commonly known as colubrids , from la, coluber, 'snake') is a family of snakes. With 249 genera, it is the largest snake family. The earliest species of the family date back to the Oligocene epoch. Colubrid snakes are found on ever .... It is commonly known as the elegant racer. Geographic range The snake is found in the Middle East. References * Reptiles described in 1878 Taxa named by Albert Günther Reptiles of the Middle East Snakes of Jordan Platyceps {{colubrid-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platyceps Josephi
''Platyceps josephi'' is a species of snake discovered in 2021 in Tamil Nadu, India. The species faces a number of threats including habitat destruction due to grasslands in southern Tamil Nadu being converted into plantations, farmlands Agricultural land is typically land ''devoted to'' agriculture, the systematic and controlled use of other forms of lifeparticularly the rearing of livestock and production of cropsto produce food for humans. It is generally synonymous with bot ..., and urban areas. References josephi Reptiles described in 2021 {{Colubrid-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |