Psammophis sibilans sibilans ( Linnaeus, 1758:222 )

Bauer, Aaron M., DeBoer, Jonathan C. & Taylor, Dylan J., 2017, Atlas of the Reptiles of Libya, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 64 (8), pp. 155-318 : 269

Psammophis sibilans sibilans ( Linnaeus, 1758:222)

This species was listed questionably from eastern Libya by Sochurek (1979), without specific locality. It was likewise indicated to occur in Libya by Le Berre (1989) and Schleich et al. (1996). These records are likely attributable to P. schokari (Sindaco et al. 2013) . The name P. sibilans has been applied in a variety of different ways to a number of completely different lineages of African whip snakes (e.g., Brandstätter 1995, 1996; Kelly et al. 2008), chiefly in sub-Saharan Africa. In North Africa, P. sibilans , as currently construed, is limited to the Nile Valley of Egypt ( Baha El Din 2006a; Sindaco et al. 2013).