Eirenis

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Subordo: Serpentes
Infraordo: Caenophidia
Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Eirenis
Species: E. africana – E. aurolineatus – E. barani – E. collaris – E. coronella – E. coronelloides – E. decemlineatus – E. eiselti – E. hakkariensis – E. kermanensis – E. levantinus – E. lineomaculatus – E. mcmahoni – E. medus – E. modestus – E. punctatolineatus – E. rechingeri – E. rothii – E. thospitis
Name

Eirenis Jan, 1863

Type species: Eirenis rothii Jan, 1863
References

Dotsenko 1989: A review of the genus Eirenis (Reptilia, Colubridae). Vestnik zoologii, 1989(5): 23–29.
Jan, G. (1863b): Enumerazione sistematica degli ofidi appartenenti al gruppo Coronellidae. - Archivio per la zoologia, l'anatomia e la fisiologia, Genova 2(2), pp. [213-330].
Eirenis at the New Reptile Database. Accessed on 31 August 2008.

Vernacular names
English: Dwarf Racers

Eirenis is a genus of Old World snakes in the family Colubridae.[1]

Species

The genus Eirenis contains the following 23 described species:[1]

Eirenis africanus (Boulenger, 1914)
Eirenis aurolineatus (Venzmer, 1919)
Eirenis barani J.F. Schmidtler, 1988 – Baran's dwarf racer
Eirenis collaris (Ménétries, 1832) – collared dwarf racer
Eirenis coronella (Schlegel, 1837) – crowned dwarf racer
Eirenis coronelloides (Jan, 1862)
Eirenis decemlineatus (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854)
Eirenis eiselti J.J. Schmidtler J.F. Schmidtler, 1978 – Eiselt's dwarf racer
Eirenis hakkariensis J.F. Schmidtler & Eiselt, 1991
Eirenis kermanensis Rajabizadeh et al., 2012
Eirenis levantinus J.F. Schmidtler, 1993
Eirenis lineomaculatus K.P. Schmidt, 1939
Eirenis medus (Chernov, 1940)
Eirenis modestus (Martin, 1838) – Asia Minor dwarf racer
Eirenis nigrofasciatus Nikolsky, 1907
Eirenis occidentalis Rajabizadeh et al., 2015
Eirenis persicus (Anderson, 1872)
Eirenis punctatolineatus (Boettger, 1892) – dotted dwarf racer
Eirenis rafsanjanicus Akbarpour, Rastegar-Pouyani, Fathinia, & Rastegar-Pouyani 2020
Eirenis rechingeri Eiselt, 1971
Eirenis rothii Jan, 1863 – Roth's dwarf racer
Eirenis thospitis J.F. Schmidtler & Lanza, 1990
Eirenis yassujicus Fathinia, Rastegar-Pouyani, & Shafaeipour, 2019

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

Some of the species within this genus have a narrow geographic distribution; for example, Eirenis mcmahoni occurs only within a single ecoregion along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border, which region is known as the Registan-North Pakistan sandy desert.[2]
References

The TIGR Reptile Database - Genus Eirenis

Hogan, C. Michael; World Wildlife Fund. 2012. Registan-North Pakistan sandy desert. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Topic editor Peter Saundry.