Spotted Desert Racer
Platyceps karelini (Brandt, 1838)
Also calledBåndet Ørkenpilsnog (dan) · Querstreifennatter (deu) · Serpiente Corredora Manchada del Desierto (spa) · štíhlovka příčnopruhá (ces) · Көлденең жолақты қарашұбар жылан (kaz) · Поперечнополосатый полоз (rus) · حنش الصحراء المنقط (ara)
First described in: Brandtt, Johann F. Note sur quatre nouvelles espèces de serpents de la côte occidentale de la mer Caspienne et de la Perse septentrionale, découvertes par M. Kareline.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution in Afghanistan. This species has mostly north-western distribution in the country and is currently known from the provinces Badghis, Balkh, Farah, Herat, Jowzjan, Kandahar (Wagner et al. 2016 and see therein for other unmapped records on p. 510).
Additional data to the herpetofauna of Afghanistan
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5223133.