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Spalerosophis diadema, Schleich, Kastle, andKabisch 1996:520. 
Spalerosophis cliffordi , Trape and Mane 2006:160. 
Spalerosophis diadema cliffordii, Sindaco, Venchi, and Grieco 2013:139. 
Distribution.— Maurita¬ 
nia eastwards through Mali, 
Niger, northern Nigeria, and 
North Africa to Egypt, including 
Sinai, Israel, Jordan, and Syria 
and from southeastern Turkey, 
Iraq, south through the Arabian 
Peninsula and east through Iran, 
Pakistan and northwest India. 
Widely distributed across Libya, 
though with no records from 
Kufrah and the southeast of the 
country. 
Libyan Records (Map 55): 
TRIPOLITANIA: Nuoat al 
Khams : 8: BMNH 1960.1.5.92; 
Kramer and Schnurrenberger 
1963. Tripoli : 39: FMNH 
82964, 83056; Marx 1959. 43: 
MCSN 4209. 45: RMNH RENA 
467A,B; ZMB 15345, 15349, 
15352-53, 15358, 18093; Gun¬ 
ther 1858; Boulenger 1893; 
Werner 1909; Schatti et al. 2010. 
56: BMNH 1960.1.5.93; Kramer 
and Schnurrenberger 1963. 
Muroub : 60: ZMB 18093; 
Peters 1880, 1881; Ghigi 1913; 
Zavattari 1934. 71: MCSN 4207. Jabal al Gharbi : 158: MCSN 4208. “Tripolitania settentri- 
onale”: Zavattari 1937. FEZZAN: Wadi al Shatii : 211: Zavattari 1937. Ghat : 249: Domergue 
1953. Wadi al Hayaa : 277: Frynta et al. 2000. 279: MSNM [no specific number given]; Kramer 
and Schnurrenberger 1963. 269: Zavattari 1934. Sabha : 281: AIC 2006.1546; Ibrahim 2008a. 284: 
SK 1064, 1726; Kramer and Schnurrenberger 1963. 285: Schnurrenberger 1963. 286: Ghigi 1913. 
Murzuo : 296: ZCT 2005.36; Ibrahim 2008a. 298: MCSN 2874. MSNM [no specific number 
given]; ZCT 2005.44; Zavattari 1934; Kramer and Schnurrenberger 1963; Ibrahim 2008a. 300: 
ZCT 2005.13; Ibrahim 2008a. 303: ZCT 2006.34; Zavattari 1937; Ibrahim 2008a. 306: ZCT 
2005.10; Ibrahim 2008a. 308: AIC 2005.1540; Ibrahim 2008a. 310: ZCT 2006.61; Ibrahim 2008a. 
313: AIC 2006.1545; Ibrahim 2008a. 316: ZCT 2005.18, 2006.08; Ibrahim 2008a. 318: SK 826; 
ZCT 2006.36; Kramer and Schnurrenberger 1963; Schnurrenberger 1963; Ibrahim 2008a. CYRE- 
NAICA: Benghazi : 341: SK 36; Kramer and Schnurrenberger 1958, 1963. 366: NHMC 80.3.7.1. 
379: Kramer and Schnurrenberger 1958. Marj : 385: Werner 1909; Zavattari 1937. Jabal al 
Akhdar : 423: CAS 135743. Darnah : 484: Calabresi 1923; Zavattari 1929, 1930, 1934. Al 
Wahat : 540: BMNH 1960.1.5.91; Kramer and Schnurrenberger 1963. 545a: SK 596; Kramer and 
Figure 32. Spalerosophis diadema cliffordii from 9 km east of Ben Joad, 
Jabal al Akhdar, Cyrenaica, Libya (32.8239, 21.8519), 2007. Photo courtesy of 
Natural History Museum of Crete © V. Paravas. 
