:Schokari sand racer

{{Short description|Species of snake}}

{{Speciesbox

| name = Schokari sand racer

| image = Psammophis schokari01.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author1=Wilms, T. |author2=Wagner, P. |author3=Els, J. |author4=Al Johany, A.M.H. |author5=Amr, Z.S.S. |author6=Orlov, N.L. |author7=Shafiei Bafti, S. |author8=Baha El Din, S. |author9=Mateo, J.A. |author10=Geniez, P. |author11=Böhme, W. |author12=Hraoui-Bloquet, S. |author13=Papenfuss, T. |author14=Ananjeva, N.B. |author15=Borkin, L. |author16=Milto, K. |author17=Golynsky, E. |author18=Rustamov, A |author19=Nuridjanov, D. |author20=Munkhbayar, K. |date=2021 |title=Psammophis schokari |page=e.T164704A1069614 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-3.RLTS.T164704A1069614.en |access-date=21 February 2022}}

| genus = Psammophis

| species = schokari

| authority = (Forskal, 1775)

| synonyms =

| range_map = Psammophis schokari distribution.png

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The Schokari sand racer or Forskal sand snake (Psammophis schokari) is a species of psammophiid snake found in parts of Asia and Africa. Psammophis aegyptius has at times been considered a subspecies of Psammophis schokari but is presently considered a full species.{{NRDB species |genus=Psammophis |species=aegyptius |access-date=2 June 2024}} Many people refer to snakes in the genus Psammophis as colubrids, but this is now known to be incorrect — they were once classified in the Colubridae, but our more sophisticated understanding of the relationships among the groups of snakes has led herpetologists to reclassify Psammophis and its relatives into Lamprophiidae, a family more closely related to Elapidae than to Colubridae.{{cite journal |last1=Pyron |first1=R.A. |last2=Burbrink |first2=F.T. |last3=Wiens |first3=J.J. |title=A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |date=2013 |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=93 |doi=10.1186/1471-2148-13-93 |pmid=23627680 |pmc=3682911 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2013BMCEE..13...93P }}