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Red-bellied Racer
Dolichophis schmidti (Nikolsky, 1909)
Also calledCobra-chicote-de-Schmidt (por) · Coulervre de Schmidt (fra) · Culebra látigo roja (spa) · Gyzyl Ilan (aze) · Krasobrukhii Poloz (rus) · Kırmızı Yılan (tur) · Rote Pfeilnatter (deu) · Rote Springnatter (deu) · Sarygaryn Telkhe (aze) · Schmidt-haragossikló (hun) · Schmidts Pfeilnatter (deu) · Schmidts pijlslang (nld) · Sydvestasiatisk Rødbuget Pilsnog (dan) · Tzitelmucela Mzuravi (kat)
First described in: Nikolsky, A. M. Novae species reptiliem e Caucaso [in Russian].
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
Dolichophis schmidti (Nikolskii 1909)
39. Dolichophis schmidti (Nikolskii, 1909) Coluber schmidti Nikolskii, 1909 Hierophis schmidti: Nikolskii (1909 a) Zamenis gemonensis: Nikolskii (1913: 135), partim. Coluber jugularis erythrogaster: Terentyev and Chernov (1940: 136) Coluber jugularis schmidti: Muskhelishvili (1970: 142), et auct. Taxonomic sources followed. Nagy et al. (2004), 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). Taxonomic remark. Candidate species. This snake belongs to the eastern species group of a large superspecies D. jugularis (Nagy et al. 2010) . Formerly was considered to be a geographic subspecies of D. jugularis . The species is not isolated geographically from the nominal form of D. jugularis . Mitochondrial DNA (Cytochrome b) difference between D. schmidti and its closest relative, D. caspius (NCBI Accession # AY 486923 and PP 378902) reaches 6.5 % and p - distance based on mitochondrial cytochrome b structure exceeds 10 %, and reaches 6–7 % between D. schmidti and D. caspius . Yet, populations of the latter two
An Annotated Checklist of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Georgia with DNA Barcoding Data and Taxonomic Remarks
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