New locality records of eremial snake species in southeastern Turkey (Ophidia: Colubridae, Elapidae, Typhlopidae, Leptotyphlopidae).

The article presents a study on eremial snake species locality records in southeastern Turkey (Ophidia: Elapidae, Colubridae, Leptotyphlopidae, Typhlopidae). It says that Leptotyphlops macrorhynchus is first recorded from westernmost localities, while Walterinnesia morgani and Spalerosophis diadema are recorded from localities near Kilis. It notes that the new locality record broadens the known range of snake species some 80 kilometer (km) to the east. It adds that Turkish desert cobras were referred to Walterinnesia aegyptia and the diagnostic characters of new specimen from Kilis match the characteristics of female W. morgani.