Sonora straminea

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Sonora
Species: Sonora straminea

Name

Sonora straminea (Cope, 1860)

• Syntypes (5): USNM 4674a–b, USNM 6495a–b, and ANSP 3405.
• Type locality: “Cape St. Lucas, Lower California”, Mexico.

Combinations

• Chilomeniscus stramineus Cope, 1860: 339 [original combination]
• Carphophis straminea — Garman, 1884: 99 [subsequent combination]
• Sonora straminea — Cox et al., 2018: 972 [subsequent combination]

Synonyms

• Chilomeniscus punctatissimus Van Denburgh & Slevin, 1921: 98 [synonymized by Grismer et al. (2002: 27)]
  • Holotype: CAS 49156, young ♀.
  • Type locality: “on Isla Partida, Espiritu Santo Island, Gulf of California, Mexico”.

References

Primary references

• Cope, E.D. 1860. Notes and descriptions of new and little known species of American reptiles. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12: 339–345. BHL Reference page. 
• Garman, S. [1883] 1884. The reptiles and batrachians of North America. Part I. Ophidians. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 8: 1–185. BHL
• Van Denburgh, J. & Slevin, J.R. 1921. Preliminary diagnoses of new species of reptiles from islands in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series 11(17): 96–98. BHL
• Grismer, L.L., Wong, H. & Galina-Tessaro, P. 2002. Geographic variation and taxonomy of the Sand Snakes, Chilomeniscus (Squamata: Colubridae). Herpetologica 58(1): 18–31. JSTOR
• Cox, C.L., Rabosky, A.R.D., Holmes, I.A., Reyes-Velasco, J., Roelke, C.E., Smith, E.N., Flores-Villela, O., McGuire, J.A. & Campbell, J.A. 2018. Synopsis and taxonomic revision of three genera in the snake tribe Sonorini. Journal of Natural History 52(13–16): 945–988. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1449912 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Stebbins,R.C. 1985. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 2nd ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
• Mattison, Chris 2007. The New Encyclopedia of Snakes. Princeton University Press.

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2023. Sonora straminea. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 13 March 2022.
• Hammerson, G.A., Frost, D.R. & Gadsden, H. 2007. IUCN: Sonora straminea  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007: e.T63744A12712568. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63744A12712568.en

Vernacular names

English: Variable Sand Snake