Platyceps largeni, also known commonly as the Dahlak racer, is a species of snake in the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to Eritrea. www.reptile-database.org.
Etymology The specific name, largeni, is in honor of British herpetologist Malcolm John Largen.Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Coluber largeni, p. 151).
Geographic range P. largeni is found in the Dahlak Archipelago in Eritrea.
Habitat The preferred natural habitats of P. largeni are shrubland and the supratidal zone.
Reproduction P. largeni is oviparous.
References
Further reading Largen MJ, Spawls S (2010). Amphibians and Reptiles of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Edition Chimaira / Serpents Tale. 694 pp. . (Platyceps largeni, new combination, p. 511). Maza, Erez; Feldman, Anat; Meiri, Shai (2015). "Platyceps largeni (Schätti, 2001) – sixth specimen and a distribution extension". Check List 11 (1): 1517. Schätti B (2001). "A new species of Coluber (sensu lato) from the Dahlak Islands, Erirea, with a review of the herpetofauna of the archipelago". Russian Journal of Herpetology 8 (2): 139–148. (Coluber largeni, new species, pp. 142–144, Figures 2–3). Spawls S, Mazuch T, Mohammad A (2023). Handbook of Amphibians and Reptiles of North-east Africa. London, Oxford, New York, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury Wildlife. 640 pp. . (Platyceps largeni, p. 465).