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Eirenis (Middle Eastern Dwarf Snakes)

(Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae)

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Eirenis in general

Dotsenko, I.B. 1985. A revision of the genus Eirenis (Reptilia, Colubridae). Communication 1. Resurrection of the genus Pseudocyclophis Boettger, 1888. Vestnik Zoologii 1985(4): 41-44.

Dotsenko, I.B. 1987. Comparative study of the diet of three Transcaucasian snake species of the genus Eirenis (Colubridae). Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 158: 84-88.

Dotsenko, I.B. 1989. A review of the genus Eirenis (Reptilia, Colubridae). Vestnik Zoologii 1989(5): 23-29.

Dotsenko, I.B. 2005. Taxonomic value of the pholidosis and pattern characters in systematic and phylogeny of genus Eirenis. Russian Journal of Herpetology 12: 29-31. (Supplement).

Dotsenko, I.B.; Shcherbak, N.N. 1985. Vertical and habitat distribution of the Eirenis snakes (Serpentes, Colubridae) in the Soviet Kopet-Dagh. Vestnik Zoologii 1985(2): 40-42.

Landsman, A.; Werner, Y.L. 2011. Captive reproduction of Eirenis levantinus Schmidtler, 1993 with comments on some congeners (Squamata: Serpentes: Colubridae). Herpetozoa 23(3-4): 59-65.

Mahlow, K.; Tillack, F.; Schmidtler, J.F.; Mueller, J. 2013. An annotated checklist, description and key to the dwarf snakes of the genus Eirenis JAN, 1863 (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae), with special emphasis on the dentition. Vertebrate Zoology 63(1): 41-85.

Nagy, Z.T.; Schmidtler, J.F.; 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.

Rajabizadeh, M.; Schmidtler, J.F.; Orlov, N.L.; Soleimani, G. 2012. Review of taxonomy and distribution of the Eirenis medus group (Chernov, 1940) (Ophidia: Colubridae) with description of a new species of the genus Eirenis from Kerman Province, southeastern Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology 19(4): 307-313.

Schmidt, D. 1989. The snakes of Transcaucasia. Part 3. Eirenis, Telescopus and Vipera. Snake Keeper 3(1): 13-18.

Schmidtler, J.F. 1993. Zur Systematik und Phylogenie des Eirenis-modestus-Komplexes in Süd-Anatolien (Serpentes, Colubridae). Spixiana 16(1): 79-96.

Schmidtler, J.F. 1997. Die Zwergnattern (Eirenis modestus-Komplex) des Antitaurus in Süd-Anatolien und ihre geographischen Beziehungen zur begleitenden Herpetofauna. Salamandra 33(1): 33-60.

Schmidtler, J.F.; Eiselt, J. 1991. Zur Systematik und Verbreitung ostanatolischer Zwergnattern; mit Beschreibung von Eirenis hakkariensis n. sp. Salamandra 27(4): 225-237.

Seufer, H. 2009. Pflege und zucht der Levante-Zwergnatter Eirenis levantinus Schmidtler, 1993 sowie Bemerkungen zu anderen Eirenis-Arten. Elaphe 17(2): 31-38.

Shwayat, S.N.; Disi, A.M.; Amr, Z.S. 2009. Snakes of the genus Eirenis in Jordan (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae). Vertebrate Zoology 59(1): 91-101.

Stickel, W.H. 1951. Distinctions between the snake genera Contia and Eirenis. Herpetologica 7: 125-131.

Wall, F. 1924. A review of the Asiatic species of Contia in Indian Museums. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 29: 769-774.

Eirenis africanus

Boulenger, G.A. 1914. Descriptions of new species of snakes in the collection of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (London) 14: 482-485.

Eirenis angusticeps

Annandale, N. 1904. Additions to the collection of Oriental snakes in the Indian Museum. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 73: 208-212.

Rajabizadeh, M.; Nagy, Z.T.; Adriaens, D.; Avci, A.; Masroor, R.; Schmidtler, J.F.; Nazarov, R.; Esmaeili, H.R.; Christiaens, J. 2015. Alpine-Himalayan orogeny drove correlated morphological, molecular, and ecological diversification in the Persian Dwarf Snake (Squamata: Serpentes: Eirenis persicus). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176(4) [2016]: 878-913. (First published online 20 November 2015).

Wall, F. 1908. Remarks upon the snake Contia angusticeps. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 18: 501-503.

Eirenis barani

Moravec, J. 1998. Taxonomic and faunistic notes on the herpetofauna of Syria (Reptilia). Faunistische Abhandlungen (Dresden) 21(Supplement): 99-106.

Schmidtler, J.F. 1988. Eirenis barani n. sp. aus dem mediterranen Süden der Türkei (Serpentes: Colubridae). Salamandra 24(4): 203-214.

Eirenis collaris

Baran, I. 1978. Some rare species of snakes from Turkey. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 81 [1977]: 261-265.

Baran, I.; Kumlutas, Y.; Ilgaz, C.; Türkozan, O.; Avci, A. 2004. New locality records extended the distribution of some ophidians in southeastern Anatolia. Russian Journal of Herpetology 11(1): 6-9.

Darevsky, I.S.; Bakradze, M.A. 1982. The taxonomic status of Contia collaris var. macrospilota Werner, 1903 (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae). Amphibia-Reptilia 3(2-3): 283-287.

Elpatjevsky, V. 1902. On the correlation between Contia modesta and Contia collaris. Annuaire Mus. St. Petersb. 7: 223-234.

Franzen, M.; Sigg, H. 1989. Bemerkungen zu einigen Schlangen Ostanatoliens. Salamandra 25(3-4): 203-212.

Sadeghi, N.; Rajabizadeh, M.; Rastegar-Pouyani, N.; Yousefkhani, S.S.H. 2014. Updated distribution of Eirenis collaris (Menetries, 1832) (Serpentes; Colubridae) in Iran. Herpetology Notes 7: 245-246.

Sadeghi, N.; Rastegar-Pouyani, N.; Yousefkhani, S.S.H. 2014. Sexual size dimorphism in Eirenis collaris Ménétriés 1832 from Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology 21(4): 291-294.

Sadeghi, N.; Yousefkhani, S.S.H.; Rastegar-Pouyani, N.; Rajabizadeh, M. 2014. Skull comparison between Eirenis collaris and Dolichophis jugularis (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 10(2): 87-100.

Schiønemann, L. 1998. Rejsebrev fra Kurdistan, Nordirak, september 1997. [Travel diary from Kurdistan, North Iraq, September 1997]. (In Danish, English summary). Nordisk Herpetologisk Forening 41(1): 15-18.

Schmidtler, J.F.; Baran, I. 1993. Eirenis collaris - Halsband-Zwergnatter. pp. 267-278. In: Böhme, W. (ed.). Handbuch der Reptilien und Amphibien Europas. Band 3/I: Schlangen (Serpentes) 1 (Typhlopidae, Boidae, Colubridae 1: Colubrinae). Aula-Verlag, Wiesbaden. 480 pp.

Weber-Semenoff, D. 1977. Mating behaviour of Eirenis collaris (Menetries) in captivity. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta (Leningrad) 74: 36-38.

Werner, F. 1903. Über Reptilien und Batrachier aus Guatemala und China in der zoologischen Staats-Sammlung in München, nebst einem Anhang über seltene Formen aus anderen Gebieten. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 22(2): 343-384.

Eirenis coronella

Arnold, E.N. 1982. Reptiles of Saudi Arabia. A new semaphore gecko (Pristurus: Gekkonidae) and a new dwarf snake (Eirenis: Colubridae) from southwestern Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 4: 468-477.

Baran, I. 1978. Some rare species of snakes from Turkey. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 81 [1977]: 261-265.

Baran, I.; Kumlutas, Y.; Ilgaz, C.; Türkozan, O.; Avci, A. 2004. New locality records extended the distribution of some ophidians in southeastern Anatolia. Russian Journal of Herpetology 11(1): 6-9.

Goldberg, S.R.; Schwarz, R.; Jamison, S.; Maza, E. 2017. Natural history notes: Eirenis coronella (Crowned Dwarf Racer). Reproduction. Herpetological Review 48(3): 672-673.

Sivan, N.; Werner, Y.L. 2003. Revision of the Middle-Eastern dwarf-snakes commonly assigned to Eirenis coronella (Colubridae). Zoology in the Middle East 28: 39-59.

Eirenis coronelloides

Afrasiab, S.R.; Mohamad, S.I. 2014. New records of snakes from Iraq (Reptilia: Colubridae). Zoology in the Middle East 60(1): 92-94.

Avci, A.; Olgun, K. 2011. On additional specimens of Eirenis (Pediophis) coronelloides (Serpentes: Colubridae) collected from southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, with a discussion of its status. Russian Journal of Herpetology 18(1): 73-79.

Nilson, G.; Rastegar-Pouyani, N. 2011. On the occurrence of Eirenis coronelloides (Jan, 1862) in western Iran (Reptilia: Colubridae). Zoology in the Middle East 54: 133-135.

Eirenis eiselti

Göcmen, B.; Igci, N.; Akman, B.; Anil, O.M. 2013. New locality records of snakes (Ophidia: Colubridae: Dolichophis, Eirenis) in eastern Anatolia. North-Western Journal of Zoology 9(2): 276-283.

Tayhan, Y.; Dincaslan, Y.E.; Avci, A.; Tok, C.V. 2011. A new record of Eirenis (Pediophis) eiselti Schmidtler & Schmidtler, 1978 (Ophidia: Colubridae), in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey. Biharean Biologist 5(1): 1-3.

Eirenis hakkariensis

Schmidtler, J.F.; Eiselt, J. 1991. Zur Systematik und Verbreitung ostanatolischer Zwergnattern; mit Beschreibung von Eirenis hakkariensis n. sp. Salamandra 27(4): 225-237.

Eirenis kermanensis

Rajabizadeh, M.; Schmidtler, J.F.; Orlov, N.L.; Soleimani, G. 2012. Review of taxonomy and distribution of the Eirenis medus group (Chernov, 1940) (Ophidia: Colubridae) with description of a new species of the genus Eirenis from Kerman Province, southeastern Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology 19(4): 307-313.

Eirenis levantinus

Landsman, A.; Werner, Y.L. 2011. Captive reproduction of Eirenis levantinus Schmidtler, 1993 with comments on some congeners (Squamata: Serpentes: Colubridae). Herpetozoa 23(3-4): 59-65.

Schmidtler, J.F.; Göcmen, B.; Yildiz, M.Z.; Akman, B.; Yalcinkaya, D.; Nagy, Z.T. 2009. Rediscovery of the snake genus Eirenis on Cyprus (Reptilia: Colubridae). Salamandra 45(1): 15-23.

Seufer, H. 2009. Pflege und zucht der Levante-Zwergnatter Eirenis levantinus Schmidtler, 1993 sowie Bemerkungen zu anderen Eirenis-Arten. Elaphe 17(2): 31-38.

Eirenis lineomaculatus

Basoglu, M. 1970. On two specimens of Eirenis lineomaculata Schmidt (Colubridae, Ophidia) from Turkey. Sci. Rep. Fac. Sci. Ege Univ. 110: 1-7.

Göcmen, B.; Gecit, M.; Karis, M. 2014. New locality records of the Striped Dwarf Snake, Eirenis lineomaculatus Schmidt, 1939 (Squamata: Ophidia: Colubridae) in Turkey. Biharean Biologist 8(2): 126-128.

Eirenis mcmahoni

Rajabizadeh, M.; Nagy, Z.T.; Adriaens, D.; Avci, A.; Masroor, R.; Schmidtler, J.F.; Nazarov, R.; Esmaeili, H.R.; Christiaens, J. 2015. Alpine-Himalayan orogeny drove correlated morphological, molecular, and ecological diversification in the Persian Dwarf Snake (Squamata: Serpentes: Eirenis persicus). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176(4) [2016]: 878-913. (First published online 20 November 2015).

Sanyal, D.P.; Talwar, P.K. 1975. Contia mcmahoni Wall 1911 (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae): rediscovery of a syntype in the Zoological Survey of India. Newsletter of the Zoological Survey of India 1(2): 14-16.

Eirenis medus

Khomustenko, Y.D. 1981. [New data on the herpetofauna on central Kopet Dagh]. pp. 142. In: Darevsky, I.S.; Ananjeva, N.B.; Barkagan, Z.S.; Borkin, L.Y.; Sokolova, T.M. & Szczerbak, N.N. (eds.). The problems of herpetology: abstracts. Nauka, Leningrad. 163 pp. (abstract, in Russian).

Eirenis modestus

Cattaneo, A. 2007. Osservazioni sull'ofiofauna dell'isola egea di Symi (Sporadi meridionali). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Venezia 58: 257-267.

Cicek, K.; Mermer, A. 2007. A preliminary study of the food of the dwarf snake, Eirenis modestus (Martin, 1838) (Serpentes: Colubridae), in Izmir and Manisa provinces. Turkish Journal of Zoology 31(4): 399-402.

Elpatjevsky, V. 1902. On the correlation between Contia modesta and Contia collaris. Annuaire Mus. St. Petersb. 7: 223-234.

Ilani, G.; Bouskila, A. 1982. Collared peace snakes in Galilee. Israel - Land and Nature 7(4): 170.

Kalaentzis, K.; Kazilas, C.; Strachinis, I. 2018. Two cases of melanism in the Ring-headed Dwarf Snake Eirenis modestus (Martin, 1838) from Kastellorizo, Greece (Serpentes: Colubridae). Herpetology Notes 11: 175-178.

Lymberakis, P.; Tok, C.V.; Ugurtas, I.H.; Sevinç, M.; Crochet, P.A.; Nilson, G.; Anderson, S.C.; Andrén, C. 2009. Eirenis modestus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2009: e.T157292A5072508. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T157292A5072508.en.

Schmidtler, J.F.; Baran, I. 1993. Eirenis modestus - Kopfbinden-Zwergnatter. pp. 279-292. In: Böhme, W. (ed.). Handbuch der Reptilien und Amphibien Europas. Band 3/I: Schlangen (Serpentes) 1 (Typhlopidae, Boidae, Colubridae 1: Colubrinae). Aula-Verlag, Wiesbaden. 480 pp.

Sikmashvili, N.M. 1975. [A study of the batracho and herpetofauna of the Little Caucasus (Meskhet-Dzhabakheti).] (In Russian). Vestnik Gosudarstvennogo Muzeya Gruzii (A) 28: 368-402.

Wettstein, O. von 1937. Vierzehn neue Reptilienrassen von den südlichen Ägäischen Inseln. Zoologischer Anzeiger 118(3/4): 79-90.

Eirenis nigrofasciatus

Eirenis occidentalis

Eirenis persicus

Agasyan, A.L. 1987. The snake Pseudocyclophis persicus (Anderson, 1872) - a first record for the Caucasian fauna. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 158: 177-179.

Ataev, C.A.; Shammakov, S.M. 1990. [New data on the distribution and abundance of some reptiles at the limit of their range in Turkmenistan]. (In Russian). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1990(3): 69-71.

Baran, I. 1978. Some rare species of snakes from Turkey. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 81 [1977]: 261-265.

Baran, I.; Kumlutas, Y.; Ilgaz, C.; Türkozan, O.; Avci, A. 2004. New locality records extended the distribution of some ophidians in southeastern Anatolia. Russian Journal of Herpetology 11(1): 6-9.

D'Abreu, E.A. 1934. Extension of the range of the snake Contia persica Anders. in the Punjab. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 37: 226.

Kurilenko, V.E. 1987. [Materials on the ecology and reproductive behaviour of Pseudocyclophis persicus (Serpentes, Colubridae)]. (In Russian). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1987(6): 65-67.

Moradi, N.; Shafiei, S.; Sehhatisabet, M.E. 2013. The snake fauna of Khabr National Park, southeast of Iran. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 9(1): 41-55.

Murthy, T.S.N. 1972. New generic names for some snakes of the families Colubridae and Elapidae (Reptilia: Serpentes). Current Science 41(13): 504.

Rajabizadeh, M.; Nagy, Z.T.; Adriaens, D.; Avci, A.; Masroor, R.; Schmidtler, J.F.; Nazarov, R.; Esmaeili, H.R.; Christiaens, J. 2015. Alpine-Himalayan orogeny drove correlated morphological, molecular, and ecological diversification in the Persian Dwarf Snake (Squamata: Serpentes: Eirenis persicus). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176(4) [2016]: 878-913. (First published online 20 November 2015).

Tsellarius, A.Y.; Cherlin, V.A.; Lukin, Y.A. 1983. [Reptile population of Eroilanduz drainless depression (Badkhyz, Turkmenia)]. (In Russian, English summary). Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Turkmenskoi SSR Seriya Biologicheskikh Nauk 1983(6): 63-66.

Eirenis punctatolineatus

Baran, I.; Kumlutas, Y.; Ilgaz, C.; Türkozan, O.; Avci, A. 2004. New locality records extended the distribution of some ophidians in southeastern Anatolia. Russian Journal of Herpetology 11(1): 6-9.

Boulenger, G.A. 1920. Description of a new snake of the genus Contia, B. & G., from Persia. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 1920(1): Unpaginated.

Franzen, M.; Sigg, H. 1989. Bemerkungen zu einigen Schlangen Ostanatoliens. Salamandra 25(3-4): 203-212.

Rajabizadeh, M.; Schmidtler, J.F.; Javanmardi, S.; Rastegar-Pouyani, N.; Esmaeili, H.R. 2012. Taxonomy, distribution and geographic variation of Eirenis punctatolineatus (Boettger, 1892) (Reptilia: Colubridae). Amphibia-Reptilia 33(1): 69-82.

Eirenis rechingeri

Eiselt, J. 1971. Eirenis rechingeri n.sp. (Colubridae, Serpentes) aus dem Iran. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 75: 375-381.

Gholamhosseini, A.; Schmidtler, J.F.; Zareian, H.; Esmaeili, H.R. 2009. The second specimen of the Iranian Eirenis rechingeri Eiselt, 1971. Herpetozoa 22(3-4): 189-190.

Zadhoush, B.; Brink, M. van den; Rajabizadeh, M. 2016. Geographic distribution: Eirenis rechingeri. Herpetological Review 47(2): 262.

Eirenis rothi

Baran, I. 1978. Some rare species of snakes from Turkey. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 81 [1977]: 261-265.

Goldberg, S.R. 2013. Natural history notes: Eirenis rothii (Roth's Dwarf Racer). Reproduction. Herpetological Review 44(1): 153.

Mienis, H.K. 1993. A landsnail in a faecal pellet of the snake Eirenis rothi Jan, 1865 (Mollusca, Gaatropoda [Gastropoda] - Reptilia, Ophidia). Malakologiai Tajekoztato 12: 41.

Eirenis thospitis

Schmidtler, J.F.; Lanza, B. 1990. A new dwarf-snake (Eirenis) from Lake Van in eastern Turkey. Amphibia-Reptilia 11(4): 363-371.

Eirenis walteri