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Zamenis persicus (Persian Rat Snake)

Synonyms: Coluber longissima persica; Coluber longissimus persica; Coluber longissimus var. nigra; Coluber longissimus var. persica; Elaphe persica

Wikipedia Abstract

The Persian ratsnake (Zamenis persicus) is a species of medium-sized nonvenomous ratsnake, which is endemic to Western Asia.
View Wikipedia Record: Zamenis persicus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  6.863 lbs (3.113 kg)
Gestation [1]  50 days
Litter Size [1]  7
Maximum Longevity [1]  4 years

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Elburz Range forest steppe Iran Palearctic Temperate Coniferous Forests    

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Irano-Anatolian Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Turkmenistan Yes

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0