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 hungaricus, Coluber lafonti, Coluber merkurensis, Coluber ombonii, 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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