Eirenis
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| Eirenis | |
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| Eirenis modestus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Vertebrata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Subfamily: | Colubrinae |
| Genus: | Eirenis Jan, 1863 |
Eirenis is a genus of snakes in the Colubridae family. It contains the following eighteen described species:[1]
- Eirenis africana (Boulenger, 1914)
- Eirenis aurolineatus (Venzmer, 1919)
- Baran dwarf racer, Eirenis barani Schmidtler, 1988
- Ringhal's dwarf snake, Eirenis collaris (Ménétriés, 1832)
- crowned dwarf racer, Eirenis coronella (Schlegel, 1837)
- Eirenis coronelloides (Jan, 1862)
- Eirenis decemlineatus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854)
- Eiselt's dwarf racer, Eirenis eiselti Schmidtler & Schmidtler, 1978
- Eirenis hakkariensis Schmidtler & Eiselt, 1991
- Eirenis levantinus Schmidtler, 1993
- Eirenis lineomaculatus Schmidt, 1939
- Eirenis mcmahoni (Wall, 1911)
- Eirenis medus (Chernov, 1940)
- Asia Minor dwarf racer, Eirenis modestus (Martin, 1838)
- dotted dwarf racer, Eirenis punctatolineatus (Boettger, 1892)
- Eirenis rechingeri Eiselt, 1971
- Roth's dwarf racer, Eirenis rothii Jan, 1863
- Eirenis thospitis Schmidtler & Lanza, 1990
Distribution
Some of the species within this genus have a narrow geographic distribution; for example, Eirenis mcmahoni occurs only within a single ecoregion along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border, which region is known as the Registan-North Pakistan sandy desert.[2]
References
- ↑ The TIGR Reptile Database - Genus Eirenis
- ↑ C.Michael Hogan; World Wildlife Fund. 2012. Registan-North Pakistan sandy desert. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Topic ed. Peter Saundry
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