Published November 29, 2018 | Version v1
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Rhynchocalamus ilamensis Fathinia, Rastegar-Pouyani

  • 1. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Razi University, Kermanshah (Iran) na. eskandarzadeh @ gmail. com (corresponding author)
  • 2. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Razi University, Kermanshah (Iran)
  • 3. Biology, Faculty of Science, Hakim sabzevari University, Sabzevar (Iran)
  • 4. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Yasouj University, Yasouj (Iran)
  • 5. Biology, Faculty of Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad (Iran)
  • 6. Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Lorestan University, Khorramabad (Iran)

Description

Rhynchocalamus ilamensis Fathinia, Rastegar-Pouyani,

Rastegar-Pouyani, Darvishnia, 2017

Rhynchocalamus ilamensis Fathinia, Rastegar-Pouyani, Rastegar- Pouyani, Darvishnia, 2017: 477.

COMMON NAME. — Ilam Black-headed Snake (designated here).

HOLOTYPE. — YUZM-CRh.1.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Bina and Bijar No-hunting Area (33°38’N, 46°2’E, 724 m a.s.l.), Ilam Province.

DISTRIBUTION. — It is known from Ilam Province.

HABITAT. — The species present in limestone Western foothills of the Zagros Mountains covering with annual to perennial plant.

IUCN. — Not evaluated.

REFERENCE. — Fathinia et al. (2017).

REMARK

Further investigation is needed to reveal whether Lytorhynchus levitoni and Rhynchocalamus Ilamensis are synonyms.

Notes

Published as part of Eskandarzadeh, Naeimeh, Rastegar-Pouyani, Nasrullah, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, Fathinia, Behzad, Bahmani, Zahed, Hamidi, Kordiyeh & Gholamifard, Ali, 2018, Annotated checklist of the endemic Tetrapoda species of Iran, pp. 507-537 in Zoosystema 40 (24) on page 525, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a24, http://zenodo.org/record/4336795

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Colubridae
Genus
Rhynchocalamus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Squamata
Phylum
Chordata
Species
ilamensis
Taxon rank
species

References

  • FATHINIA B., RASTEGAR- POUYANI E., RASTEGAR- POUYANI N. & DARVISHNIA H. 2017. - A new species of the genus Rhynchocalamus Gunther, 1864 (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae) from Ilam Province in western Iran. Zootaxa 4282 (3): 473 - 486. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4282.3.3