Coluber longissimus var. nigra NIKOLSKY (“1905” 1907: 293)
Holotype:
ZISP 10334, “Nasterabad prope Astrabad” [Natrabad near Gorgan, Golestan Province, Iran, 36.83 N 54.50 E]. Leg. N. A. Zarudny 5.X.1903.
Present name: Zamenis persicus (F. Werner, 1913) fide Wallach et al. (2014).