Check List 17(6): 1623-1626, doi: 10.15560/17.6.1623
New records of Xerotyphlops vermicularis (Merrem, 1820) indicate the northernmost locality of the species in the Balkan Peninsula
Teodora Koynova‡, Pavlina Marinova§, Nikola Stanchev|, Nikolay Natchev¶#, Daniel Jablonski¤‡ Department of Biology, Shumen University, Shumen, Bulgaria§ Department of Biology, Shumen University, Shumen, Bulgaria, Bulgaria| Department of Zoology and Anthropology, Sofia, Bulgaria¶ Department of Biology, Shumen University, Shumen, Shumen, Bulgaria# Department for Integrative Zoology, Vienna University, Vienna, Austria¤ Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
Corresponding author: Daniel Jablonski ( daniel.jablonski@uniba.sk ) Academic editor: Ross MacCulloch © Teodora Koynova, Pavlina Marinova, Nikola Stanchev, Nikolay Natchev, Daniel Jablonski. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Koynova T, Marinova P, Stanchev N, Natchev N, Jablonski D (2021) New records of Xerotyphlops vermicularis (Merrem, 1820) indicate the northernmost locality of the species in the Balkan Peninsula. Check List 17(6): 1623-1626. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.6.1623 |  |
Abstract
The Xerotyphlops vermicularis (Merrem, 1820) complex represents small, burrowing snakes that occur from the Balkan Peninsula to Afghanistan and generally they are mostly observed during the springtime. In the present study, we report new records of this snake (10 individuals observed) from Elenite village in coastal Bulgaria. According to current knowledge, they represent the northernmost locality of the species in the Balkan Peninsula. We expand the known distribution of X. vermicularis and help to fill information gaps.
Keywords
Eurasian Blind snake, geographic distribution, range extension, reptiles, snake