Short racer

Short racer
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Platyceps
Species:	P. brevis
Binomial name
	Platyceps brevis; (Boulenger, 1895)
Synonyms
	Zamenis brevis ; Boulenger, 1895; Coluber brevis ; — Parker, 1932; Haemorrhois brevis ; — Welch, 1982; Eremiophis brevis ; — Welch, 1983; Platyceps brevis ; — Schätti & Utiger, 2001;

The short racer (Platyceps brevis), is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to northeastern Africa.

Geographic range

P. brevis is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania.

Two subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies.

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Platyceps.

P. brevis is oviparous.

↑ Spawls, S.; Malonza, P. (2021). "Platyceps brevis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021 e.T18032666A18032676. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T18032666A18032676.en. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
1 2 3 4 Species Platyceps brevis at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.
↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Coluber smithi, p. 247).

Boulenger GA (1895). "Rettili e Batraci ". In: "Esplorazione del Giuba e dei suoi affluenti compiuta dal Cap. V. Bottego durante gli anni 1892-93 sotto gli auspicii della Società Geografica Italiana, risultati zoologici ". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Serie 2, 15: frontispiece map + xviii + 558 pp. + Plates I-V. (Zamenis brevis, new species, pp. 13–14 + Plate III, figures 3, 3a, 3b). (title in Italian, text in English).
Boulenger GA (1895). "An Account of the Reptiles and Batrachians collected by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith in Western Somali-land and the Galla Country". Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1895: 530-540 + Plates XXIX-XXX. (Zamenis smithi, new species, pp. 536–537 + Plate XXX, figures 2, 2a).
Schätti B, Charvet C (2003). "Systematics of Platyceps brevis (Boulenger 1895) and related East African racers (Serpentes Colubrinae)". Tropical Zoology 16: 93–111.

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Short racer
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Platyceps
Species:	P. brevis
Binomial name
*Platyceps brevis* (Boulenger, 1895)
Synonyms
Zamenis brevis Boulenger, 1895 Coluber brevis — Parker, 1932 Haemorrhois brevis — Welch, 1982 Eremiophis brevis — Welch, 1983 Platyceps brevis — Schätti & Utiger, 2001