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Smith's Racer

Platyceps smithii (Boulenger, 1895)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Recorded from
S Kenya, Tanzania, S Somalia, S Ethiopia (fide LANZA 1988)
Also published as
Coronella semiornata fuscorosea Loveridge, 1935; Zamenis smithii Boulenger, 1895
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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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References

  • Parker, H. W. (1949). The snakes of Somaliland and the Sokotra islands. Zoologische Verhandelingen 6: 1-115.
  • Spawls, S. (1978). A checklist of the snakes of Kenya. East Afr. Natur. Hist. Soc. And Natl. Mus., Nairobi, J. No. 167 18 Pp.
  • Largen, M. J. (1997). An annotated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Eritrea, with keys for their identification. Tropical Zoology 10: 63-115.
  • Broadley, D. G., & Schätti, B. (2000). A new species of Coluber from northern Namibia (Reptilia: Serpentes). Madoqua 19 (2): 171-174 [1997].
  • Boulenger, G. A. (1895). An account of the reptiles and batrachians collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith in western Somaliland and the Galla Country. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1895: 530-540.
  • Boulenger, G. A. (1895). Rettili e Batraci. in, Esplorazione del Giuba e dei suoi Affluenti compiuta dal Cap. V. Bottego durante gli Anni 1892-93 sotto gli auspicii della Società Geografica Italiana. Annali Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Giacomo Doria (2) 15: 9-18.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.