Description of a new species of Lytorhynchus (Squamata: Colubridae) from Iran

Abstract

A new species of the genus Lytorhynchus is described from the Kabir-Koh Mountains, southwestern Iran. Known from a single specimen, it is readily distinguished from its congeners by the form of the rostrum, the number of scales, and the colouration and colour pattern.

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Keywords:

• Awl-headed Snake
• Lytorhynchus levitoni sp. n.
• southwestern Iran

Acknowledgements

I wish to thank Prof. Dr Alan E. Leviton (CAS, San Francisco, USA) for editing and improving my manuscript. I wish also to thank Prof. Dr W. Böhme, Dr M. Flecks, Dr D. Rodder, Dr C. Koch (ZFMK, Bonn, Germany), Prof. Dr Uwe Fritz, Dr R. Ernst and M. Auer (MTD, Dresden, Germany) for making available the material examined. Finally, I wish to thank Prof. Dr S. C. Anderson (CAS, San Francisco, USA) for his scientific help during my study and Dr M. Kasparek (Heidelberg, Germany) for his comments for improving my manuscript.

Supplementary Material

The Annex is given as a Supplementary Annex, which is available via the “Supplementary” tab on the article’s online page (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2017.1299319).

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