Schokari sand racer

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Schokari sand racer
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Psammophiidae
Genus: Psammophis
Species:
P. schokari
Binomial name
Psammophis schokari
(Forskal, 1775)

Schokari sand racer (Psammophis schokari) is a species of Colubrid snake found in parts of Asia and Africa.

Distribution

Northwest India, Afghanistan (Leviton 1959: 461), Pakistan, south Turkmenistan, Western Sahara, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Syria, Iraq, Iran (Kavir desert), and Yemen.

Type locality: Yemen

Psammophis schokari aegyptius has been elevated to species status.[citation needed]

References

  • Forskål, P. 1775 Descriptiones animalium, avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere Orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Mölleri, Hauniae, xxxiv + 164 pp.
  • Marx, H. 1988 The colubrid snake, Psammophis schokari, from the Arabian Peninsula. Fieldiana Zool. New Ser. 40 (1383): 1-16

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