Platyceps atayevi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Platyceps
Species: Platyceps atayevi

Name

Platyceps atayevi (Tuniyev & Shammakov, 1993)

• Holotype: CSBR 420, adult ♂, collected by B.S. Tuniyev on 12 May 1991.
• Type locality: “environs of Saivan Village, Saivan-Nokhur Plateau, western Kopet-Dag, Bakharden

Region, Turkmenistan”.

Combinations

• Coluber atayevi Tuniyev & Shammakov, 1993: 2 [original combination]
• Platyceps najadum atayevi — Schätti, 2004 [subsequent combination]
• Platyceps atayevi — Nagy, Lawson, Joger & Wink, 2004 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• 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. BHL

Additional references

• 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.

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Platyceps atayevi. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 26 September 2022.

Vernacular names

English: Atayev's Whip Snake