Racers

Platyceps is a genus of snakes of the family Colubridae endemic to Eurasia.

Taxonomy

The genus was erected in 1860 by Edward Blyth, allying species previously described.

The genus name Platyceps was inadvertently used for a fossil species in 1877, now recognised as Platycepsion wilkinsoni.^[1]

Species

The following 30 species are recognized as being valid.^[2]

• Platyceps afarensis Schätti & Ineich, 2004
• Platyceps atayevi (Tuniyev & Shammakov, 1993)
• Platyceps bholanathi (Sharma, 1976)
• Platyceps brevis (Boulenger, 1895)
• Platyceps collaris (F. Müller, 1878)
• Platyceps elegantissimus (Günther, 1878)
• Platyceps florulentus (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827)
• Platyceps gracilis (Günther, 1862)
• Platyceps insulanus (Mertens, 1965)
• Platyceps josephi Deepak, Narayanan, Mohapatra, Dutta, Melvinselvan, Khan, Mahlow & Tillack, 2021
• Platyceps karelini (Brandt, 1838)
• Platyceps ladacensis (Anderson, 1871)
• Platyceps largeni (Schätti, 2001)
• Platyceps messanai (Schätti & Lanza, 1989)
• Platyceps najadum (Eichwald, 1831)
• Platyceps noeli Schätti, Tillack & Kucharzewski, 2014
• Platyceps plinii (Merrem, 1820)
• Platyceps rhodorachis (Jan, 1865)
• Platyceps rogersi (Anderson, 1893)
• Platyceps saharicus Schätti & McCarthy, 2004
• Platyceps schmidtleri (Schätti & McCarthy, 2001)
• Platyceps scortecci (Lanza, 1963)
• Platyceps sinai (Schmidt & Marx, 1956)
• Platyceps sindhensis Schätti, Tillack & Kucharzewski, 2014
• Platyceps somalicus (Boulenger, 1896)
• Platyceps taylori (Parker, 1949)
• Platyceps thomasi (Parker, 1931)
• Platyceps variabilis (Boulenger, 1905)
• Platyceps ventromaculatus (Gray, 1834)
• Platyceps vittacaudatus (Blyth, 1854)

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

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