New locality records of a rare species in Turkey: The Striped Dwarf Snake, Eirenis lineomaculatus Schmidt, 1939 (Squamata: Ophidia: Colubridae)

2-s2.0-85079293356Four voucher specimens and two photos of the Striped Dwarf Snake, Eirenis lineomaculatus Schmidt, 1939 from Elazığ, Adıyaman, and Mardin provinces, are presented based on photos and our fieldwork performed in south-eastern and eastern Anatolia between 2015 and 2018. With this study, t h e records of E. lineomaculatus extend the known distribution of species about 74 km to the northwest and filled the gaps in the distribution range. All data including morphometric measurements and pholidolial are compatible with the published one. Moreover, some ecological features of the collection habitats are given. ©Biharean Biologist, Oradea, Romania, 2019FEFBAP 2014 0010Acknowledgment. This study was conducted within the framework of the Elazığ and Adıyaman provinces, National Biodiversity Inventory and Monitoring Project coordinated by the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs General Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks and a research project supported by Adıyaman University Scientific Research Coordination Unit (FEFBAP 2014 0010). The author wishes to thank the directory and staff of the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs at Adıyaman and Elazığ Departments and Fatma Üçeş, Şehriban Çakmak, and Ahmet Güneş for their help in the field study. We also would like to thank Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Zafer TEL for vegetation analysis, to Musa Geçit for species photo and distribution information in Mardin province, Dr. Serdar Sönmez for edited photos and Eren Germeç for his help in preparing the map