Hemorrhois

{{Short description|Genus of snakes}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Hemorrhois

| image = Karl Joseph Brodtmann24.jpg

| image_caption = Hemorrhois hippocrepis

| taxon = Hemorrhois

| authority = H. Boie, 1826

| type_species = Hemorrhois hippocrepis

| type_species_authority = (Linnaeus, 1758)

}}

Hemorrhois is a squamate genus containing four species of aglyphous (non-venomous) ophidian colubrid snakes, commonly referred to as whip-snakes and Asian racers, respectively. Snakes of this genus are found in an array of habitats, though they predominantly inhabit arid regions, with the most common three species of the four being found on the Iberian Peninsula and in Morocco and Northern Africa. The species H. nummifer, the Asian racer, is found in the far east of mainland Greece, Turkey and the Levant (as far south as Jordan), as well as across Armenia and into Northern Iran, ranging as far east as Kyrgyzstan.{{Cite web |date=26 July 2024 |title=Observations • iNaturalist |url=https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=map&taxon_id=29930 |website=iNaturalist}}{{Cite web |date=26 July 2024 |title=Observations • iNaturalist |url=https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&subview=map&taxon_id=27038 }}

Snakes of the genus Hemorrhois are also found on certain islands in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, including the Azores and Madeira (Portugal), Cyprus, Formantera and Ibiza (Spain),{{Cite web |date=26 July 2024 |title=Observations • iNaturalist |url=https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=6774&subview=map&taxon_id=29930 |website=iNaturalist}} Malta, Rhodes and Kalymnos (Greece), and Sardinia (Italy).{{Cite web |date=26 July 2024 |title=Observations • iNaturalist |url=https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=41.3133205&nelng=9.8284202&place_id=any&subview=map&swlat=38.859191&swlng=8.130728&taxon_id=29930 |website=iNaturalist}}