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Platyceps is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae endemic to Eurasia.




Taxonomy


The genus was erected in 1860 by Edward Blyth, allying species previously described.
The genus name Platyceps was inadvertently used for a fossil species in 1877, now recognised as Platycepsion wilkinsoni.




Species


The following 30 species are recognized as being valid.

Platyceps afarensis Schätti & Ineich, 2004 - Afar racer
Platyceps atayevi (Tuniyev & Shammakov, 1993)
Platyceps bholanathi (Sharma, 1976) - Sharma's racer, Nagarjunasagar racer
Platyceps brevis (Boulenger, 1895) - short racer
Platyceps collaris (F. Müller, 1878) - red whip snake, collared dwarf racer
Platyceps elegantissimus (Günther, 1878) - elegant racer
Platyceps florulentus (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827) - flowered racer, Geoffroy's racer
Platyceps gracilis (Günther, 1862) - graceful racer, slender racer
Platyceps insulanus (Mertens, 1965) - Sarso Island racer
Platyceps josephi Deepak, Narayanan, Mohapatra, Dutta, Melvinselvan, Khan, Mahlow & Tillack, 2021 -Joseph’s racer
Platyceps karelini (Brandt, 1838) - spotted desert racer
Platyceps ladacensis (Anderson, 1871) - braid snake, Jan's cliff racer
Platyceps largeni (Schätti, 2001) - Dahlak racer
Platyceps messanai (Schätti & Lanza, 1989) - Schätti's racer
Platyceps najadum (Eichwald, 1831) - Dahl's whip snake, the slender whip snake
Platyceps noeli Schätti, Tillack & Kucharzewski, 2014 - Brahui racer
Platyceps plinii (Merrem, 1820)
Platyceps rhodorachis (Jan, 1865) - common cliff racer, Wadi racer, desert racer, braid snake, Jan’s cliff racer
Platyceps rogersi (Anderson, 1893) - Rogers's racer
Platyceps saharicus Schätti & McCarthy, 2004
Platyceps schmidtleri (Schätti & McCarthy, 2001)
Platyceps scortecci (Lanza, 1963)
Platyceps sinai (Schmidt & Marx, 1956) - Sinai racer, Sinai banded racer
Platyceps sindhensis Schätti, Tillack & Kucharzewski, 2014 - Sindh racer
Platyceps somalicus (Boulenger, 1896) - Ogaden racer, Audo racer
Platyceps taylori (Parker, 1949) - Taylor's racer
Platyceps thomasi (Parker, 1931) - Thomas's semi-banded racer
Platyceps variabilis (Boulenger, 1905) - variable snake, variable racer
Platyceps ventromaculatus (Gray, 1834) - Hardwicke's rat snake, glossy-bellied racer, Gray's rat snake, spotted bellied snake
Platyceps vittacaudatus (Blyth, 1854) - striped-tailed racer
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Platyceps.




References






Further reading


Blyth E (1860). "Report of Curator, Zoological Department". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 29 (1): 87–115. (Platyceps, new genus, p. 114).

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Xenosauridae
• Kolubrid
• Platyceps
• Meiolania
• Platyceps najadum
• Platyceps saharicus
• Xenosaurus platyceps
• Platyceps rhodorachis
• Platyplectrum platyceps
• Platyceps rogersi
• Platyceps bholanathi
• Platyceps florulentus