Hemorrhois ravergieri

Taxobox
name = Spotted Whip Snake
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Reptilia
ordo = Squamata
subordo = Serpentes
familia = Colubridae
genus = "Hemorrhois"
species = "H. ravergieri"
binomial = "Hemorrhois ravergieri"
binomial_authority = (Ménétries, 1832)

Hemorrhois ravergieri, commonly called the Spotted Whip Snake is a species of snake found in Central Asia and South Asia.

Distribution

*Former Soviet Union (Caucasus), eastern shore of Caspian Sea east to E Kazakhstan,
*Greece (Kos), Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Hindustan, Jordan,
*Syria, Israel, W Mongolia, NW China (Xinjiang)
*Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan

References

* Böhme,W. 1993 Coluber ravergieri - Ravergiers Zornnatter. In: Böhme,W. (ed.), Handbuch der Reptilien und Amphibien Europas, Band 3/I., Schlangen (Serpentes) I. Aula-Verlag Wiesbaden, pp. 145-154
* Ménétries, E. 1832 Catalogue raisonné des objets de zoologie recueillis dans un voyage au caucase et jusqu'aux frontières actuelles de la Perse. L'Académie Impériale des Sciences, St. -Pétersbourg
* Schätti B. & Monsch, P. 2004 Systematics and phylogenetic relationships of Whip snakes (Hierophis Fitzinger) and Zamenis andreana Werner 1917 (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubrinae). Rev. Suisse Zool. 111 (2): 239-256
* Schweiger, Mario 1991 Coluber ravergieri Menetries, 1832 - eine ungewöhnliche Zornnatter. Teil 1: Beschreibung, Verbreitung, Ökologie und Giftwirkung Herpetofauna 13 (70): 30-34

External links

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* http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Coluber_ravergieri.jpg
* [http://www.herp-am.narod.ru/Species/hr.htm "Coluber ravergieri"] at [http://www.herp-am.narod.ru/Species/hr.htm The Checklist of Armenia's Amphibians and Reptiles at Tadevosyan's Herpetological Resources] . Accessed 30 March 2007.