A new, rare, small-ranged, and endangered mountain snake of the genus Elaphe from the Southern Levant

Abstract The genus Elaphe Fitzinger, 1833 includes 17 species of charismatic, large-sized, non-venomous, Eurasian snakes. In the Western Palearctic, the genus is represented by three species from the Elaphe quatuorlineata group ranging from the Apennine peninsula to Central Asia. The southernmost po...

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Main Authors: Daniel Jablonski, Marco Antônio Ribeiro-Júnior, Evgeniy Simonov, Katarína Šoltys, Shai Meiri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30878-4