Psammophis schokari
Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Elapoidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Psammophiidae
Genus: Psammophis
Species: Psammophis schokari
Name
[edit]- Psammophis schokari (Forsskål, 1775)
Neotype: FMNH 66153, ♂, collected by H. Hoogstraal & R.E. Kuntz on 27 January 1951. [designated by Marx (1988: 13–14).
Type locality: “Temen [=Yemen]”, redesigned by neotype designation to “Hodeida (= Al Hudaydah), Yemen” by Marx (1988: 13–14).
Combinations
[edit]- Coluber schokari Forsskål, 1775: 14 [original combination]
- Psammophis schokari — Boulenger, 1896: 157 [subsequent combination]
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Forsskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit. Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Ex Officina Mölleri: Hauniae [=Copenhagen]. 1–20 + i–xxxiv + 1–164 + 1 map. BHL Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Duarte Vasconcelos Gonçalves, Fernando Martínez‐Freiría, Pierre‐André Crochet, Philippe Géniez, Salvador Carranza and José Carlos Brito: The role of climatic cycles and trans-Saharan migration corridors in species diversification: Biogeography of Psammophis schokari group in North Africa. In: Molecular phylogenetics and evolution. Vol. 118, 2018, pp. 64–74, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.09.009
Links
[edit]- Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Psammophis schokari. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 10 May 2019.
- IUCN: Psammophis schokari (Least Concern)
Vernacular names
[edit]English: Schokari Sand Racer
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