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posedly destroyed in World War II (Scortecci in 
Kramer and Schnurrenberger 1963). Kramer 
and Schnurrenberger (1963) examined a male 
specimen from Ghat (collection Kramer), hav¬ 
ing 15 scales at midbody and 3 supralabials 
touching the eye, which is consistent with 
P. tanganicus but not its Libyan or northeast 
African congeners (see Chippaux 1999). 
Although some recent authors cite this species 
for Libya (Schleich et al. 1996) or for the Sahel 
of Chad (Le Berre 1989), Spawls et al. (2002), 
Venchi and Sindaco (2006) and Sindaco et al. 
(2013) have called into question the occurrence 
of this species so far from its primary range. 
UCN Threat Status: Not assessed. 
Map 60. Distribution of Psammophis tanganicus in 
Libya. 
Rhagerhis moilensis (Reuss, 1834:142, pi. 7, fig. la-lb) 
1834 Coluber moilensis Reuss, Zoologische Miscellen. Reptilien. Ophidier. Museum Senckenbergianum 
1:127-162, pis. 7-9. 
Holotype.— SMF 20017 (formerly SMF-R III.R.l.a and SMF-B-9143c) fide Boettger (1898) and 
Mertens (1922, 1967), “Arabien, Gegend von Moilah” [Arabia, vicinity of Al Muwaylah, Al Muqata’ah Ash 
Shamaliyah Province, Saudi Arabia], 
Malpolon moilensis, Kramer and Schnurrenberger 1963:511. 
Malpolon moilensis, Le Berre 1989:278. 
Malpolon moilensis, Schleich, Kastle, and Kabisch 1996:499. 
Rhagerhis moilensis, Sindaco, Venchi, and Grieco 2013:171. 
Distribution.— Widely distributed 
across North Africa from Mauritania to Moroc¬ 
co and across the continent to the east from 
Sinai to Sudan and Eritrea. In Asia from Israel 
to Syria to western Iran and throughout the 
Arabian Peninsula. Distributed widely across 
Libya. 
Libyan Records (Map 61): TRIPOLITA- 
NIA: Tripoli : 39: FMNH 82961-63. 45: Wern¬ 
er 1909; Ghigi 1913. Misratah : 73: ZSM 
159/1983. 88: MCSN 4211. Jabal al Gharbi : 
141: SK 1481; Kramer and Schnurrenberger 
1963. Sirte : 185: MCSN 2797; Kramer and 
Schnurrenberger 1963. 195: MCSN 2792. 
“Tripolitania”: Anderson 1898; Zavattari 
1934; Scortecci 1939. “360 km S. of Tripoli”: 
BMNH 1987.2200. FEZZAN: Jufra: 214: 
