Short Racer
Platyceps brevis (Boulenger, 1895)
Also calledКороткий полоз (rus)
First described in: Boulenger, G. A. An account of the reptiles and batrachians collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith in western Somaliland and the Galla Country.
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Localities: AB (house wall) Remarks: This racer occupies dry savanna and semi-desert at elevations spanning 100 – 1,300 m (Spawls et al. 2018). In the early afternoon (1400 h) of 16 November 2016, we collected a specimen of this species (Fig. 4 T) coming out of a crevice in the wall of one of the buildings in the Alia Bay grasslands. Only limited information is known about this species and records are still sparse, leading to a fragmented currently-known distribution range (Spawls et al. 2018).
An annotated checklist of the herpetofauna of the Sibiloi National Park in northern Kenya based on field surveys
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 7690293.