Zamenis hohenackeri
Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Colubroidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Zamenis
Species: Zamenis hohenackeri
Subspecies (3): Z. h. hohenackeri – Z. h. lyciensis – Z. h. tauricus
Name
[edit]Zamenis hohenackeri (Strauch, 1873)
- Lectotype: ZISP 1625 (formerly AIS), collected by R.F. Hohenacker in 1838. [designated by Bischoff (1993: 322)]
- Type locality: “Kolonie Helenendorf”, “in der Gegend von Elisabethpol”, “bei Tiflis” and “Kaukasus”, restricted by lectotype designation to “Kolonie Helenendorf” [=Chanlar/Goygol, Azerbaijan], by Bischoff (1993: 323).
- Paralectotypes (n=4): ZISP 1642, collected by Fricke in 1840 at “Elisabethpol [=Ganja]”, ZISP 1636 collected by Schmidt in 1845 at “Tiflis [Tbilisi]” and ZISP 1629 and 1630 donated by Kolenati in 1845 from “Kaukasus”.
Combinations
[edit]- Coluber hohenackeri Strauch, 1873: 69 [original combination]
- Elaphe hohenackeri — Nikolsky, 1916: 118 [subsequent combination]
- Zamenis hohenackeri — Utiger, Helfenberger, Schätti, Schmidt, Ruf & Ziswiler, 2002: 119 [subsequent combination]
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Strauch, A. 1873. Die Schlangen des Russischen Reichs, in Systematischer und Zoogeographischer Beziehung. Mémoires de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg. Septième Série 21(4): 1–288, pls. i–vi. BHL Reference page.
- Utiger, U., Helfenberger, N., Schätti, B., Schmidt, C., Ruf, M. & Ziswiler, V. 2002. Molecular Systematics and Phylogeny of Old and New World Ratsnakes, Elaphe Auct., and Related Genera (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 9(2): 105–124. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2002-9-2-105-124 [nonfunctional] Reference page.
Additional references
[edit]- Jandzík, D., Avcı, A. & Gvoždík, V. 2013. Incongruence between taxonomy and genetics: three divergent lineages within two subspecies of the rare Transcaucasian Rat Snake (Zamenis hohenackeri). Amphibia-Reptilia 34(4): 579–584. DOI: 10.1163/15685381-00002911 Reference page.
- Wallach, V., Williams, K.L. & Boundy, J. 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 1237 pp. ISBN 9781138034006 Reference page.
- Hofmann, S., Mebert, K., Schulz, K-D., Helfenbeger, N., Göçmen, B. & Böhme, W. 2018. A new subspecies of Zamenis hohenackeri (Strauch, 1873) (Serpentes: Colubridae) based on morphological and molecular data. Zootaxa 4471(1): 137–153. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4471.1.6 Reference page.
- Boundy, J. 2021. Snakes of the World: A Supplement. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 273 pp. ISBN 9781138618138 ebook Reference page.
Links
[edit]- Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Zamenis hohenackeri. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 19 October 2022.
- Hraoui-Bloquet, S., Sadek, R., Tok, V., Ugurtas, I.H., Sevinç, M., Werner, Y., Sterijovski, B., Nilson, G., Tuniyev, B. & Akarsu, F. 2009. IUCN: Zamenis hohenackeri (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T157251A5060528. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T157251A5060528.en. Accessed on 19 October 2022.
Vernacular names
[edit]English: Transcaucasian Ratsnake