FIGURE 1. The known distribution of M. muelleri (black) and M. tchernovi (yellow). The Northern part of M. muelleri's range is not shown. It is poorly understood, resting only on a single vague 1880's verbal report from Latakia, in western Syria (Lortet 1883), a 1952 specimen From "Syria… Tripolis" (presumably Tripoli, NW Lebanon; Battersby 1953), and a 1995 specimen from "10 km W of Qal'at al Hosn – Crac des Chevaliers; 300 m a.s.l." in SW Syria near the Lebanese border (Bischoff & Schmidtler 1997). The map is drawn based on our own observations, the scientific literature, and specimens in the collections of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University.

Published as part of Jamison, Simon, Maza, Erez, Sinaiko, Guy, Tamar, Karin, Slavenko, Alex & Meiri, Shai, 2020, To be or not to be tchernovi: a taxonomic revision of the snake genus Micrelaps (Squamata: Serpentes), in Israel, pp. 290-306 in Zootaxa 4881 (2) on page 292, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4283685