Hemorrhois ravergieri (Menetries, 1832)

Figs 9, 10C, D

Takhar records.

Bay Yawa (Keserkul), 37.4264°N, 69.7127°E, 734 m a.s.l., 1 April 2020, dead on the road, killed by local people, one subadult male (CUHC-PA 177).

Distribution in Afghanistan.

The species is known from the Provinces of Badakhshan, Bamiyan, Herat, Kabul, Kandahar, Kunduz, Nuristan, Paktia (Wagner et al. 2016; Jablonski et al. 2019b) and Takhar. It represents 26% of all provinces.

Chorotype.

West Asian Mountains transition zone + Turanian + Iranian.

Remarks.

The here-presented record is the first of this species for Takhar Province. It is a common Central Asiatic snake, often found in a variety of habitats (Szczerbak 2003). Some Central Asiatic populations or individuals are characterised by a black head (Tuniyev et al. 1997) which was also the case for the observed individual from Takhar.