Braid snake or Jan's cliff racer (''Platyceps rhodorachis'') is a
species of
snake found in
Central Asia.
Distribution
It is found in
Algeria,
Libya,
Egypt,
Israel,
Jordan,
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
,
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
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Eritrea
Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia ...
,
Ethiopia,
Somalia,
Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ...
,
Saudi Arabia,
United Arab Emirates,
Oman,
Iraq,
Iran (
Kavir desert
Dasht-e Kavir ( fa, دشت كوير, lit=Low Plains in classical Persian, from ''khwar'' (low), and ''dasht'' (plain, flatland)), also known as Kavir-e Namak () and the Great Salt Desert, is a large desert lying in the middle of the Iranian Plat ...
),
Afghanistan, W
Pakistan,
Yemen, S
Turkmenistan, S
Uzbekistan, NW
Tajikistan, W
Kyrgyzstan, S
Kazakhstan
Races:
*''subniger'': Eritrea to Somalia.
*''ladacensis'': Iran, east to Afghanistan, north to S Turkmenistan, S Uzbekistan, W Tajikistan., Pakistan
*''kashmirensis'': Pakistan (KHAN, pers. comm.); Type locality: from under pile of faggots near house of Master Muhammad Sadiq Goi Madan, Kotli, Azad Kashmir 33°30'N, 74°00'E. 1315 m
Type locality: Arabian Peninsula; Shiraz (Iran)
ide SCHÄTTI & McCARTHY 2004
Highly variable in external morphology, particularly ventral scales.
References
* Boulenger, G.A. 1887 A list of the reptiles and batrachians obtained near Muscat, Arabia, and presented to the British Museum by Surgeon-Major A.S.G. Jayakar. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) 20: 407-408
* Jan 1865 in: De Filippi, Viagg. Pers.: 356
* Perry, G. 1985 A new subspecies of Coluber rhodorachis (Ophidia: Colubridae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 33:123
* Utiger, Urs, Notker Helfenberger, Beat Schätti, Catherine Schmidt, Markus Ruf and Vincent Ziswiler 2002 Molecular systematics and phylogeny of Old World and New World ratsnakes, Elaphe Auct., and related genera (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae). Russ. J. Herpetol. 9 (2): 105–124.
External links
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* http://www.podarcis.nl/downloads/2001/2/eng/OmanDeel422001Eng.pdf
Platyceps
Reptiles of Central Asia
Reptiles of Pakistan
Reptiles described in 1865
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Snakes of Jordan
Reptiles of North Africa
Reptiles of Somalia
Reptiles of Ethiopia