Schokari sand racer

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Schokari sand racer
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Psammophiidae
Genus: Psammophis
Species:
P. schokari
Binomial name
Psammophis schokari
(Forskal, 1775)
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The Schokari sand racer or Forskal sand snake (Psammophis schokari) is a species of psammophiid snake found in parts of Asia and Africa. [1] [2] Psammophis aegyptius has at times been considered a subspecies of Psammophis schokari but is presently considered a full species. [3] Many people refer to snakes in the genus Psammophis as colubrids, but this is now known to be incorrect — they were once classified in the Colubridae, but our more sophisticated understanding of the relationships among the groups of snakes has led herpetologists to reclassify Psammophis and its relatives into Lamprophiidae, a family more closely related to Elapidae than to Colubridae. [4]

Distribution

Northwest India, Afghanistan (Leviton 1959: 461), Pakistan, south Turkmenistan, Western Sahara, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Oman, [5] Syria, Iraq, Iran (Kavir Desert), and Yemen.

Psammophis schokari from United Arab Emirates Psammophis schokari.jpg
Psammophis schokari from United Arab Emirates

Type locality: Yemen.

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