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{{taxobox
| name = ''Hemorrhois ravergieri''
| image = Kocabas Yilan.jpg
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Chordata]]
| subphylum = [[Vertebrata]]
| classis = [[Reptilia]]
| ordo = [[Squamata]]
| subordo = [[Serpentes]]
| familia = [[Colubridae]]
| subfamilia = [[Colubrinae]]
| genus = ''[[Hemorrhois]]''
| species = '''''H. ravergieri'''''
| binomial = ''Hemorrhois ravergieri''
| binomial_authority = ([[Édouard Ménétries|Ménétries]], 1832)
| synonyms = *''Coluber ravergieri'' {{small|Ménétries, 1832}}
*''Zamenis caudælineatus'' {{small|[[Albert Günther|Günther]], 1858}}
*''Periops caudælineatus'' {{small|— [[Giorgio Jan|Jan]], 1865}}
*''Zamenis fedtschenkoi'' {{small|[[Alexander Strauch (naturalist)|Strauch]], 1873}}
*''Zamenis ravergieri'' {{small|— [[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1893}}
*''Elaphe caudaelineata'' {{small|— [[Karl Patterson Schmidt|Schmidt]], 1939}}
*''Hemorrhois ravergieri'' {{small|— [[Zoltan T. Nagy|Nagy]] et al., 2004}}
| synonyms_ref =<ref name="Blgr1893">[[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger GA]] (1893). ''Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families ... Colubridæ Aglyphæ, part.'' London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 448 pp. + Plates I-XXVIII. (''Zamenis ravergieri'', pp. 405-406).</ref><ref>"''Hemorrhois ravergieri'' ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref>
}}

'''''Hemorrhois ravergieri''''', commonly called the '''spotted whip snake''', is a [[species]] of [[snake]] found in [[Western Asia]], [[Central Asia]], and [[South-central Asia|South-Central Asia]].

==Etymology==
The [[Specific name (zoology)|specific name]], ''ravergieri'', is in honor of a certain Mr. Ravergier who was an attaché at the French Embassy in [[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]].<ref>Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (''Hemorrhois ravergieri'', p. 218).</ref>

==Geographic range==
*Former Soviet Union ([[Caucasus]]), eastern shore of [[Caspian Sea]] east to E [[Kazakhstan]],
*[[Greece]] ([[Kos]]), [[Turkey]], [[Iraq]], [[Iran]], [[Afghanistan]], [[Pakistan]], [[Jordan]],
*[[Syria]], [[Israel]], W [[Mongolia]], NW [[China]] ([[Xinjiang]])
*[[Armenia]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Azerbaijan]], [[Turkmenistan]], [[Uzbekistan]], [[Tajikistan]]

==Description==
Dorsally it is tan or grayish, with a series of dark rhomboidal spots or crossbars, alternating with smaller spots on the sides. The spots usually become confluent posteriorly, and appear as dark stripes on the tail. There is a diagonal dark streak below the eye, and a similar subparallel streak from the back of the eye to the corner of the mouth. Ventrally it is whitish or covered with blackish dots.

The weakly keeled dorsal scales are arranged in 21 rows. The ventrals, which are obtusely angulate laterally, number 190-222; the anal is divided; and the subcaudals, which are paired, are 75-101.

Adults may attain {{convert|133|cm|ftin|abbr=on}} in total length, with a tail {{convert|32|cm|in|frac=2|abbr=on}} long.<ref name="Blgr1893"/>

==References==
; Citations
{{Reflist}}

; Bibliography
*[[:de:Wolfgang Böhme (Zoologe)|Böhme W]] (1993). "Coluber ravergieri - ''Ravergiers Zornnatter'' ". '''In:''' Böhme W (editor) (1993). ''Handbuch der Reptilien und Amphibien Europas, Band 3/I., Schlangen (Serpentes) I.'' Wiesbaden: Aula-Verlag. pp. 145–154.
*[[Édouard Ménétries|Ménétries E]] (1832). ''Catalogue raisonné des objets de zoologie recueillis dans un voyage au caucase et jusqu'aux frontières actuelles de la Perse''. Saint Petersburg, Russia: ''L'Académie Impériale des Sciences''. 330 pp. (''Coluber ravergieri'', new species, pp. 69-70).
*[[Beat Schätti|Schätti B]], [[Paul Monsch|Monsch P]] (2004). "Systematics and phylogenetic relationships of Whip snakes (''Hierophis'' Fitzinger) and ''Zamenis andreana'' Werner 1917 (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubrinae)". ''Rev. Suisse Zool.'' '''111''' (2): 239-256.
*[[Mario Schweiger|Schweiger M]] (1991). "Coluber ravergieri ''Menetries, 1832 - eine ungewöhnliche Zornnatter. Teil 1: Beschreibung, Verbreitung, Ökologie und Giftwirkung'' ". ''Herpetofauna'' '''13''' (70): 30-34.

==External links==
* {{NRDB species|genus=Hemorrhois|species=ravergieri}}
* [http://www.herp-am.narod.ru/Species/hr.htm ''Coluber ravergieri''] at [http://www.herp-am.narod.ru/Species/hr.htm The Checklist of Armenia's Amphibians and Reptiles at Tadevosyan's Herpetological Resources]. Accessed 30 March 2007.

[[Category:Colubrids]]
[[Category:Reptiles of Pakistan]]
[[Category:Reptiles of Afghanistan]]
[[Category:Reptiles of Kazakhstan]]
[[Category:Reptiles of Mongolia]]
[[Category:Reptiles of Tajikistan]]
[[Category:Reptiles of Turkmenistan]]
[[Category:Reptiles of Uzbekistan]]
[[Category:Hemorrhois]]

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