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Distribution

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Continent: Europe Asia Near-East
Distribution: W+S Yugoslavia: coastal Croatia (incl. island of Krk, Pag), Hercegowina, Monte Negro, Macedonia, Albania, Greece (Limnos, Lesbos, Chios, Samos), Bulgaria, Turkey, Cyprus, Soviet Union (Caucasus), S Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Syria, Israel, Iraq atayevi: Turkmenistan (Kopet-Dag Mountains) dahli: Bulgaria (etc.), Greece (incl. Corfu = Corfou), Lebanon kalymnensis: Kalymnos schmidtleri: Iran (Zagros Mountains)
Type locality: Baku, Azerbaijan

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Zamenis

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Zamenis is a genus of Old World non-venomous snakes in the family Colubridae.

Name

Zamenis comes from Greek ζαμενής (lat. vehemens, iracundus)^[1] meaning "angry", "irritable", "fierce".

Species

The following 6 species are recognized as being valid:^[2]

Zamenis hohenackeri (Strauch, 1873) – Transcaucasian ratsnake
Zamenis lineatus (Camerano, 1891) – Italian Aesculapian snake
Zamenis longissimus (Laurenti, 1768) – Aesculapian snake
Zamenis persicus (F. Werner, 1913) – Persian ratsnake
Zamenis scalaris (Schinz, 1822) – Ladder snake
Zamenis situla (Linnaeus, 1758) – European ratsnake

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

References

^ Wagler, J. (1830). Natürliches System der Amphibien : mit vorangehender Classification der Säugethiere und Vögel : ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Zoologie. Munich, Stuttgart and Tübingen: J.G. Cotta. vi + 354 pp. + one plate, in German and Latin. (Zamenis, new genus, p. 188.) Available online at the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL).
^ "Zamenis ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.