Coluber planicarinatus Bachmayer and Szyndlar 1985 (racer)

Reptilia - Squamata - Colubridae

Alternative combination: Nanus planicarinatus

Full reference: F. Bachmayer and Z. Szyndlar. 1985. Ophidians (Reptilia: Serpentes) from the Kohfidisch fissures of Burgenland, Austria. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie A: Mineralogie und Petrographie, Geologie und Palaeontologie, Anthropologie Praehistorie 87:79-100

Belongs to Coluber according to F Bachmayer and Z Szyndlar 1987

See also Bachmayer and Szyndlar 1985

Sister taxa: Coluber acuminatus, Coluber beggiatoi, Coluber cadurci, Coluber caspioides, Coluber caspius, Coluber constrictor, Coluber dolnicensis, Coluber fossilis, Coluber freybergi, Coluber gervaisii, Coluber hungaricus, Coluber lafonti, Coluber lobsingensis, Coluber merkurensis, Coluber ombonii, Coluber plioagellus, Coluber pouchetii, Coluber robertmertensi, Coluber suevicus, Coluber viridiflavus

Type specimen: NMW 1984/97 (a single trunk vertebra). Its type locality is Kohfidisch, which is in a MN 11 terrestrial horizon in Austria.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Kohfidisch

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