Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Colubridae > Lytorhynchus > Lytorhynchus diadema

Lytorhynchus diadema (Crowned Leafnose Snake, Diademed Sand Snake)

Synonyms: Heterodon diadema; Lytorhynchus diadema arabicus; Lytorhynchus diadema mesopotamicus; Lytorhynchus gaddi

Infraspecies

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Wadi Rum Protected Area National Park V   Jordan  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Horn of Africa Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen No
Mediterranean Basin Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey No

External References

Citations

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
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