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]

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