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title: "Forskal Sand Snake"
description: "Psammophis schokari — Reptiles. The Schokari sand racer or Forskal sand snake (Psammophis schokari) is a species of psammophiid snake found in parts of Asia and Africa."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/forskal-sand-snake
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Forskal Sand Snake

> Psammophis schokari — Reptiles. The Schokari sand racer or Forskal sand snake  (Psammophis schokari) is a species of psammophiid snake found in parts of Asia and Africa.

- Scientific name: *Psammophis schokari*
- Category: `reptiles` (Reptiles)
- Habitats: `desert` (Desert)
- iNaturalist observations: 603
- Wikidata: [Q1438202](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1438202)
- iNaturalist taxon: [28966](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/28966)

## Names

- en: Forskal Sand Snake
- de: Sandrennatter
- es: Bucerrig o Culebra de arena de Schokar
- fr: Couleuvre de Schokar
- nl: Schokari Sand Racer

## Countries with the most observations

MA (254), IL (63), AE (46), OM (32), SA (28), IR (20), TN (19), DZ (12), EG (11), IN (11), EH (9), JO (7)

## Summary

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. 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…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schokari_sand_racer

## Photo

![Forskal Sand Snake](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/forskal-sand-snake/medium.jpg)

Photo: Marius Burger · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/248103472

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/forskal-sand-snake?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).