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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Subordo: Serpentes
Infraordo: Caenophidia
Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Eirenis
Species: E. africana – E. aurolineatus – E. barani – E. collaris – E. coronella – E. coronelloides – E. decemlineatus – E. eiselti – E. hakkariensis – E. kermanensis – E. levantinusE. lineomaculatus – E. mcmahoni – E. medus – E. modestus – E. punctatolineatus – E. rechingeri – E. rothii – E. thospitis
Name

Eirenis Jan, 1863

Type species: Eirenis rothii Jan, 1863
References

Dotsenko 1989: A review of the genus Eirenis (Reptilia, Colubridae). Vestnik zoologii, 1989(5): 23–29.
Jan, G. (1863b): Enumerazione sistematica degli ofidi appartenenti al gruppo Coronellidae. - Archivio per la zoologia, l'anatomia e la fisiologia, Genova 2(2), pp. [213-330].
Eirenis at the New Reptile Database. Accessed on 31 August 2008.

Vernacular names
English: Dwarf Racers

Eirenis is a genus of Old World snakes in the family Colubridae.[1]

Species

The genus Eirenis contains the following 23 described species:[1]

Eirenis africanus (Boulenger, 1914)
Eirenis aurolineatus (Venzmer, 1919)
Eirenis barani J.F. Schmidtler, 1988 – Baran's dwarf racer
Eirenis collaris (Ménétries, 1832) – collared dwarf racer
Eirenis coronella (Schlegel, 1837) – crowned dwarf racer
Eirenis coronelloides (Jan, 1862)
Eirenis decemlineatus (A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854)
Eirenis eiselti J.J. Schmidtler J.F. Schmidtler, 1978 – Eiselt's dwarf racer
Eirenis hakkariensis J.F. Schmidtler & Eiselt, 1991
Eirenis kermanensis Rajabizadeh et al., 2012
Eirenis levantinus J.F. Schmidtler, 1993
Eirenis lineomaculatus K.P. Schmidt, 1939
Eirenis medus (Chernov, 1940)
Eirenis modestus (Martin, 1838) – Asia Minor dwarf racer
Eirenis nigrofasciatus Nikolsky, 1907
Eirenis occidentalis Rajabizadeh et al., 2015
Eirenis persicus (Anderson, 1872)
Eirenis punctatolineatus (Boettger, 1892) – dotted dwarf racer
Eirenis rafsanjanicus Akbarpour, Rastegar-Pouyani, Fathinia, & Rastegar-Pouyani 2020
Eirenis rechingeri Eiselt, 1971
Eirenis rothii Jan, 1863 – Roth's dwarf racer
Eirenis thospitis J.F. Schmidtler & Lanza, 1990
Eirenis yassujicus Fathinia, Rastegar-Pouyani, & Shafaeipour, 2019

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Eirenis.
Distribution

Some of the species within this genus have a narrow geographic distribution; for example, Eirenis mcmahoni occurs only within a single ecoregion along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border, which region is known as the Registan-North Pakistan sandy desert.[2]
References

The TIGR Reptile Database - Genus Eirenis

Hogan, C. Michael; World Wildlife Fund. 2012. Registan-North Pakistan sandy desert. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Topic editor Peter Saundry.

Further reading

Jan G. 1862. "Enumerazione sistematica degli ofidi appartenenti al gruppo Calamaridae ". Archivo per la Zoologia l'Anatomia e la Fisiologia (Genoa) 2: 213–330. (Eirenis, new genus, p. 256). (in Italian).
Nagy ZT, Schmidtler JF, Joger U, Wink M. 2003. "Systematik der Zwergnattern (Reptilia: Colubridae: Eirenis) und verwandter Gruppen anhand von DNA-Sequenzen und morphologischen Daten ". Salamandra 39 (3/4): 149–168. (in German).

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