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Contia brevicauda Nikolsky 1907

Description

Contia brevicauda NIKOLSKY (“1905” 1907: 296)

Syntypes:

ZISP 10322.1 - 2, 2 specimens, “Urbs Dizful in Arabistano” [Dezful, Khuzestan Province, Iran, 32.38 N 48.41 E]. Leg: N. A. Zarudny, 11-18.III.1904.

ZISP 10331, 1 specimen, “Urbs Dizful in Arabistano” [Dezful, Khuzestan Province, Iran, 32.38 N 48.41 E]. Leg: N. A. Zarudny, 12.III.1904.

ZISP 10332, 1 specimen, “Nasrie in Arabistano” [Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, Iran, 31.32 N 48.67 E]. Leg. N. A. Zarudny, 23.II.1904.

ZISP 10347. 1-2, 2 specimens, “Aguljaschker in Arabistano” [Ab-e Lashkar, Khuzestan Province, Iran, 31.58 N 49.70 E]. Leg: N. A. Zarudny, 28. III.1904.

Present name: Eirenis coronella (Schlegel, 1837) fide Leviton et al. (1992).

Remarks: In the original description a specimens from Aguljaschker (ZISP 10347) was erroneously mentioned under number ZISP 10239.

Notes

Published as part of Ananjeva, Natalia B., Milto, Konstantin D., Barabanov, Andrei V. & Golynsky, Evgeny A., 2020, An annotated type catalogue of amphibians and reptiles collected by Nikolay A Zarudny in Iran and Middle Asia, pp. 101-128 in Zootaxa 4722 (2) on page 122, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4722.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3605815

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZISP
Event date
1904-02-23 , 1904-03-11 , 1904-03-12 , 1904-03-28
Family
Colubridae
Genus
Contia
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
2 , ZISP 10322.1 , ZISP 10331 , ZISP 10332 , ZISP 10347
Order
Squamata
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Nikolsky
Species
brevicauda
Taxon rank
species
Type status
syntype
Verbatim event date
1904-02-23 , 1904-03-11/18 , 1904-03-12 , 1904-03-28
Taxonomic concept label
Contia brevicauda Nikolsky, 1907 sec. Ananjeva, Milto, Barabanov & Golynsky, 2020

References

  • Leviton, A. E., Anderson, S. C., Adler, K. & Minton, S. A. (1992) Handbook to Middle East Amphibians and Reptiles. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, 252 pp.