Eirenis

Eirenis is a genus of Old World snakes in the family Colubridae.[1]

Eirenis
Eirenis modestus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Colubridae
Subfamily: Colubrinae
Genus: Eirenis
Jan, 1863

Species

The genus Eirenis contains the following 23 described species:[1]

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Eirenis.

Distribution

Some of the species within this genus have a narrow geographic distribution; for example, Eirenis mcmahoni occurs only within a single ecoregion along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border, which region is known as the Registan-North Pakistan sandy desert.[2]

References

Further reading

  • Jan G. 1862. "Enumerazione sistematica degli ofidi appartenenti al gruppo Calamaridae ". Archivo per la Zoologia l'Anatomia e la Fisiologia (Genoa) 2: 213–330. (Eirenis, new genus, p. 256). (in Italian).
  • Nagy ZT, Schmidtler JF, Joger U, Wink M. 2003. "Systematik der Zwergnattern (Reptilia: Colubridae: Eirenis) und verwandter Gruppen anhand von DNA-Sequenzen und morphologischen Daten ". Salamandra 39 (3/4): 149–168. (in German).


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