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Eirenis

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

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

Species

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

Eirenis africanus (Boulenger, 1914) - African dwarf snake
Eirenis aurolineatus (Venzmer, 1919)
Eirenis barani J.F. Schmidtler, 1988 – Baran's dwarf racer
Eirenis collaris (Ménétries, 1832) – collared dwarf racer
Eirenis coronella (Schlegel, 1837) – crowned dwarf racer
Eirenis coronelloides (Jan, 1862) - Sinai dwarf racer
Eirenis decemlineatus (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854) - narrow-striped dwarf snake
Eirenis eiselti J.J. Schmidtler & J.F. Schmidtler, 1978 – Eiselt's dwarf racer
Eirenis hakkariensis J.F. Schmidtler & Eiselt, 1991
Eirenis kermanensis Rajabizadeh et al., 2012
Eirenis levantinus J.F. Schmidtler, 1993
Eirenis lineomaculatus K.P. Schmidt, 1939
Eirenis medus (Chernov, 1940)
Eirenis modestus (Martin, 1838) – Asia Minor dwarf racer
Eirenis nigrofasciatus Nikolsky, 1907
Eirenis occidentalis Rajabizadeh et al., 2015
Eirenis persicus (Anderson, 1872) - dark-headed dwarf racer
Eirenis punctatolineatus (Boettger, 1892) – dotted dwarf racer
Eirenis rafsanjanicus Akbarpour, N. Rastegar-Pouyani, Fathinia & E. Rastegar-Pouyani, 2020
Eirenis rechingeri Eiselt, 1971
Eirenis rothii Jan, 1863 – Roth's dwarf racer
Eirenis thospitis J.F. Schmidtler & Lanza, 1990
Eirenis yassujicus Fathinia, E. Rastegar-Pouyani & Shafaeipour, 2019

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

^ ^a ^b The TIGR Reptile Database - Genus Eirenis
^ Hogan, C. Michael; World Wildlife Fund. 2012. Registan-North Pakistan sandy desert. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Topic editor Peter Saundry.

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).

Taxon identifiers
Eirenis	Wikidata: Q244261 Wikispecies: Eirenis ADW: Eirenis CoL: 632PH EoL: 35662 Fauna Europaea: 214734 Fauna Europaea (new): 0914483f-bec0-40c3-acbe-550808c7bd2b GBIF: 2456077 iNaturalist: 30289 IRMNG: 1278078 ITIS: 1081369 NBN: NHMSYS0000375503 NCBI: 166100 Open Tree of Life: 420364

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