Andreas's racer

Andreas's racer
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Reptilia
Order:Squamata
Suborder:Serpentes
Family:Colubridae
Genus:Hierophis
Species: H. andreanus
Binomial name
Hierophis andreanus
(F. Werner, 1917)
Synonyms[2]
  • Zamenis andreana
    F. Werner, 1917
  • Coluber andreanus
    — Schätti & Monsch, 2004
  • Hierophis andreanus
    — Torki, 2010

Andreas's racer (Hierophis andreanus) is a species of snakes in the family Colubridae.

Etymology

The specific name, andreanus, is in honor of "Herr Prof. Andreas " (= Professor Andreas) who collected natural history specimens in Persia (now Iran) in 1905.[3]

Geographic range

It is found in Iran.

References

  1. ↑ "Coluber andreanus ". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2009. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  2. ↑ "Hierophis andreanus ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
  3. ↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Coluber andreanus, p. 9).

Further reading

  • Werner F (1917). "Reptilien aus Persien (Provinz Fars) ". Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 67: 191-220. (Zamenis andreana, new species, pp. 207–208). (in German).
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