Platyceps florulentus

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
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: Platyceps
Species: Platyceps florulentus
Subspecies: P. f. florulentus – P. f. keniensis – P. f. perreti
Name

Platyceps florulentus (Geoffroy, 1827)

Type locality: Egypt.
Synonyms

Coluber florulentus Geoffroy, 1827: 146
Zamenis florulentus — Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854: 693
Zamenis florulentus — Boulenger, 1893: 402
Zamenis florulentus - Calabresi, 1925
Coluber florulentus — Loveridge, 1936
Coluber florulentus florulentus — Loveridge, 1955
Haemorrhois florulentus — Lebreton, 1999
Coluber florulentus —Schätti & Wilson, 1986
Platyceps florulentus — Nagy et al., 2004
Platyceps florulentus — Schlüter, 2005

References

Geoffroy, l. 1827: Reptiles. In: Savigny, M. J. C. L. de, Description d’Égypte. Vol. l. Histoire Naturelle. Paris, pp. 121-160 (115-184) [1809?].
Loveridge, A. 1936: African reptiles and amphibians in the Field Museum of Natural History. Zool. Ser. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Chicago, 22 (1): 1–122 [53].
Schlüter, U. 2005: Die Zornnattern Nordafrikas. Reptilia, 10 (2): 56–64.
Platyceps florulentus at the New Reptile Database. Accessed on 30 oct 2008.

Vernacular names
English: Flowered Racer