Hemorrhois ravergieri (Ménétriés, 1832:69)

Wagner, Philipp, Bauer, Aaron M., Leviton, Alan E., Wilms, Thomas M. & Böhme, Wolfgang, 2016, A Checklist of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Afghanistan *, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 63 (13), pp. 457-565 : 507

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1832 Coluber Ravergieri Ménétriés, E. , Catalogue Raisonné des Objets de Zoologie Recueillis dans un Voyage au Caucase et jusqu’aux Frontières Actuelles de la Perse. Imprimerie de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences, St. Pétersbourg, Russia. (4) + 271 + XXXIII + V pp.

SYNTYPE.— ZISP 1750 View Materials , from “Georgien” fide Strauch (1873). According to the original description from “ Géorgie [and], près de Bakou” [ Georgia and near Baku ( Azerbaijan)]; the syntype from “près de Bakou ” is unlocated. In the original description, Ménétriés (1832:70) mentioned his new species from Georgia, but the only detailed description he gave is for the single specimen from “près de Bakou,” collected by Ménétriés himself. The only specimen in the ZISP from the Ménétriés collection that was collected by Ravergier is from Georgia (see Strauch 1873:274; Nikolskii 1905239; Nikolskii 1916:103). Strauch (1873) gave the pholidosis for ZISP 1750 View Materials as “198 [ventralia] + 2 [= divided anal scale] + 81 [subcaudalia] whereas the specimen from Baku has “195 [ventralia] + 75 [subcaudalia]” fide Ménétriés (1832) .

LOCALITIES. — Feyzabad (see Fig. 22 View FIGURE ); N edge of village of Kara Bagh (CAS 90798); 30 km S of Kandahar (ZFMK 5386); Kotgai, nr. Safed-Koh [Paktia Prov., 2350 m] (ZFMK 8560); Kunduz (ZFMK 95016–19); Paghman (CAS 151230, FMNH 161177); Pashki [Nuristan Prov.] (60106– 08); Stieve [Nuristan Prov.] (ZMUC R-60104); Wama [Nuristan Prov.] (ZMUC R-60105) [ Fig. 22 View FIGURE ; see pl. 11, fig. 7 for distribution].

REMARKS.— Boulenger (1889:102) mentioned three specimens from “Tirphul, Gulran, Chinkilok,“ which most probably refer to BMNH 1886.9.21. 97–99, but it is not possible to assign these specimens to their corresponding specific localities. Smith (1940:384) mentioned an additional specimen from “ Bamian 8000 ft.,” that could refer to BMNH 1938.2.4. 15. Schätti and Agasian (1985) mapped several localities in Afghanistan (without referencing specimens) and mentioned that ZFMK 5386 About ZFMK was collected from the craw of a snake eagle .