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Platyceps florulentus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827:151, pi. 8, figs. 2, 2’) 
Le Berre (1989) indicated a more or less continuous distribution of this species across coastal 
Libya, but was, in fact, referring to the species today known as Hemorrhois algirus. At least some 
other references to P. florulentus from Cyrenaica may refer to P. rogersi (Anderson, 1893), which 
itself has a complex taxonomic history that is intertwined with several other species, including 
P. florulentus (see P rogersi species account). No Platyceps species are known to occur in Tripoli- 
tania. Platyceps florulentus is primarily East African in distribution and extends northwards to the 
Nile Delta region (Schatti, 1988), with a disjunct subspecies, P. f perreti Schatti, 1988 from Nige¬ 
ria and Cameroon (Sindaco et al. 2013). 
Lamprophiidae 
Psammophis sibilans sibilans (Linnaeus, 1758:222) 
This species was listed questionably from eastern Libya by Sochurek (1979), without specific 
locality. It was likewise indicated to occur in Libya by Le Berre (1989) and Schleich et al. (1996). 
These records are likely attributable to P. schokari (Sindaco et al. 2013). The name P sibilans has 
been applied in a variety of different ways to a number of completely different lineages of African 
whip snakes (e.g., Brandstatter 1995, 1996; Kelly et al. 2008), chiefly in sub-Saharan Africa. In 
North Africa, P sibilans, as currently construed, is limited to the Nile Valley of Egypt (Baha El Din 
2006a; Sindaco et al. 2013). 
Elapidae 
Naja nubiae Wiister and Broadley, 2003:348, figs. 1, 4 
Naja nubiae occurs along the Nile Valley of Egypt and Sudan, but is also known from the Tas- 
sili-n-Ennedi region of Chad. This distribution suggests that it might occur in southeastern Libya, 
particularly in areas with localized mesic habitats, as perhaps near Al Uwaynat. 
Walterinnesia aegyptia Lataste, 1887:411 
This species was incorrectly reported from Cyrenaica by Ribolla (1923) and the record was 
repeated by Grixoni (1926) and Franchini and Giordano (1929). Zavattari (1930) considered Ribol- 
la’s work as a whole to be unreliable and Scortecci (1939) noted that Ribolla’s record needed con¬ 
firmation. There are no confirmed records of Walterinnesia west of the Nile Valley (Baha El Din 
2006a). 
