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parthenogenetic species, which has achieved a global distribution through human agency (Wallach 
2009) is based on two specimens from Bu Gheilan reported by Joger et al. (2008). Although most 
for Libya is inhospitable for mesic-adapted blind snakes, it may be expected that I. braminus may 
be found elsewhere where appropriately moist microclimates can sustain them and the long dis¬ 
tance movement of potted plants and similar means of transport provides a mechanism for their 
introduction. 
UCN Threat Status: Not assessed, but assumed to be Least Concern. 
Family Boidae 
Eryx jaculus (Linnaeus, 1758:228) 
1758 Anguis Jaculus Linnaeus, Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, 
Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Lau- 
rentii Salvii, Holmiae [Stockholm], Sweden. (4) + 823 + (I) pp. 
Holotype.— NRM Lin-12 (see Co mm ents below), considered lost by Andersson (1899) and Stimson 
(1969), “TEgypto” [ = Egypt]. 
Eryx jaculus jaculus, Kramer and Schnurrenberger 1963:481. 
Eryx jaculus , Le Berre 1989:250. 
Eryx jaculus, Schleich, Kastle, and Kabisch 1996:273. 
Eryx jaculus, Sindaco, Venchi, and Grieco 2013:80. 
Distribution. — The species as a whole is distributed across North Africa from Morocco to 
the Suez in Egypt. The Eurasian subspecies occurs from the Middle East to Iran and north to the 
Caucasus and into Europe, through Greece and the Balkans to Romania (Krecsak and Iftime, 2006; 
Werner 2016). Records from Cyprus are considered questionable (Baier et al. 2009; see Sindaco et 
al. 2013). In Libya they are found in the Mediterranean region. 
Libyan Records (Map 48): TRIPOLITA- 
NIA: Jafara : 28: Andreucci 1913. Tripoli : 43: 
MCSN 2634. 45: ZMB 15357; Andreucci 
1913; Zavattari 1934. Sirte : 178: MCSN 2635. 
“Tripolitania settentrionale” Zavattari 1937. 
CYRENAICA: Benghazi : 357: Umani 1922, 
1923; Zavattari 1922, 1929, 1930, 1934; Cal- 
abresi 1923. 358: MZUF 12019. 367: Calabre- 
si 1923; Zavattari 1929, 1930, 1934. 379: SK 
597; Kramer and Schnurrenberger 1963. Marj : 
385: Calabresi 1923; Zavattari 1929, 1930, 
1934, 1937. Jabal al Akhdar : 417: Zavattari 
1922, 1929, 1930, 1934; Calabresi 1923. 
457bs: KNP 1981/[no specific number given]; 
Schleich 1987. 457cl: KNP 1981/ [no specific 
number given]; Schleich 1987. Darnah : 466: 
SMF 36489. 
Comments. — Anderson (1898) provided 
a detailed consideration of the potential type specimens present in Stockholm and argued for a 
specimen figured on his plate XXXA as the true type, based on its correspondence to the single 
specimen mentioned by Hasselquist (1757) and cited by Linnaeus (1758). It is unclear if this spec- 
