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Collared Dwarf Racer
Eirenis collaris (Ménétries, 1832)
Also calledCouleuvre naiane à collier (fra) · Couleuvre naine à Collier (fra) · Halsband Zvergnatter (deu) · Halsband-Zwergnatter (deu) · Halsbånd-dværgsnog (dan) · Khaltaly Ejrenis (aze) · Osheinikovyi Eirenis (rus) · Sakeloiani Kontia (kat) · Yakalı Yılan (tur) · nyakörves törpesikló (hun) · užovečka obojková (ces) · Ошейниковый эйренис (rus) · Վզնոցավոր էյրենիս (hye) · ثعبان الرياح (ara)
First described in: Ménétries, E. Catalogue raisonné des objets de zoologie recueillis dans un voyage au caucase et jusqu’aux frontières actuelles de la Perse.
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Eirenis collaris (Menetries 1832)
44. Eirenis collaris (Ménétries, 1832) Coluber collaris Ménétries, 1832 Contia collaris: Nikolskii (1913: 159); Terentyev and Chernov (1940: 151) Taxonomic sources followed. Engelmann et al. (1993), Bánki et al. (2026), Speybroeck et al. (2020), Tuniyev and Ananjeva (2024), Uetz et al. (2025). Records in Georgia. Nikolskii (1913), Muskhelishvili (1970), Bannikov et al. (1977), Iankoshvili and Tarkhnishvili (2021). Infraspecific variation. E. c. collaris (Ménétries, 1832) . Taxonomic remark. Biologically confirmed species. Distinct species with Eastern Mediterranean / Caucasus. Found in southeastern Georgia. Barcoded individuals. CaBOL -ID 1007176 (Taribana). There were no COI sequences in BOLD database of properly identified E. collaris . Closest sequences: E. coronella (BOLD: AAI 9400; Iran; similarity 89.3 %). Second-closest taxa: E. persicus (BOLD: AAO 1126; Iran; similarity 87.86 %); Euprepiophis perlacea (NCBI NC_024546; Sichuan, China; similarity 87.93 %).
An Annotated Checklist of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia with DNA Barcoding Data and Taxonomic Remarks
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2453265.