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Micrelaps

释义

Species
Taxonomy
References

{{Italic title}}{{Automatic Taxobox
| name = Micrelaps
| taxon = Micrelaps
| authority = Boettger, 1880
| synonyms = *Elaposchema
Mocquard, 1888^[1]
}}

Common names: two-headed snakes.

Micrelaps is a genus of venomous rear-fanged atractaspidid snakes found in Africa and the Middle East. Currently, five species are recognized.^[2]

Species

Species^[2]	Taxon author^[2]	Subsp.*^[2]	Common name^[3]	Geographic range^[3]
Genus *Micrelaps* - five species
M. bicoloratus	Sternfeld, 1908	moyeri	Kenya two-headed snake	Kenya
M. boettgeri	Boulenger, 1896	————	Boettger's two-headed snake	Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda
M. muelleri^T	Boettger, 1880	————	Israel, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon
M. tchernovi	Y.L. Werner, Babocsay, Carmely & Thuna, 2006	————	Israel, Jordan
M. vaillanti	(Mocquard, 1888)	————	Somali two-headed snake	Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, eastern Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda

*) Not including the nominate subspecies^T) Type species

Taxonomy

One new species, M. tchernovi, was described in 2006 by Y.L. Werner, Babocsay, Carmely, and Thuna. The authors separate this species from M. muelleri, which, according to them, lives (in the southern Levant) in the mesic Mediterranean zone, whereas M. tchernovi inhabits the semiarid Irano-Turanian zone in the Jordan Valley of Israel and Jordan. The type locality is the central Jordan Valley.^[3]^[4]

References

1. ^¹Boulenger, G.A. 1896. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History), Volume III. London. p. 248.
2. ^¹²³{{ITIS |id=700186 |taxon=Micrelaps |accessdate=17 August 2007}}
3. ^¹²{{EMBL genus|genus=Micrelaps|date=17 August|year=2007}}
4. ^Werner, Y. L., Babocsay, G., Carmely, H. & M. Thuna (2006): Micrelaps in the southern Levant: variation, sexual dimorphism, and a new species (Serpentes: Atractaspididae). - Zoology in the Middle East 38: p. 29-48. Abstract:

Böttger, O. 1880. Die Reptilien und Amphibien von Syrien, Palaestina und Cypern. Ber. senckenb. naturf. Ges. 1880:136.

4 : Lamprophiidae|Snake genera|Taxa named by Oskar Boettger|Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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