Rediscovery of Maynard's Longnose Sand Snake, Lytorhynchus maynardi, with the geographic distribution of the genus Lytorhynchus Peters, 1863 in Iran

 

Zoology in the Middle East,Vol. 61, No. 1, 32–37, 2015

Soheila Shafiei, Hadi Fahimi, Mohammad Ebrahim Sehhatisabet and Naeim Moradi


:Abstract
An adult male of Maynard’s Longnose Sand Snake (Lytorhynchus maynardi) was collected on 24 July 2009 from the east of Sistan and Baluchistan Province in southeastern Iran. The new locality is the westernmost record of this species in western Asia, and the first record for 42 years from Iran. Information on the geographic distribution of the genus Lytorhynchus Peters, 1863 in Iran, comparative morphology and some ecological data are presented here

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