Elaphe dione

Elaphe dione

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: Elaphe
Species: Elaphe dione

Name

Elaphe dione (Pallas, 1773)

Type locality: South Siberia, Russia.

Synonyms

• Coluber Dione Pallas, 1773: 717
• Coluber diana Latreille, 1802: 159 (emendation)
• Chironius dione — Fitzinger, 1826: 60
• Coluber eremita Eichwald, 1831: 174 (fide Stejneger, 1907)
• Coluber maeoticus Rathke, 1837: 433 (fide Stejneger, 1907)
• Coluber trabalis Schlegel, 1837: 167 (fide Duméril & Bibron, 1854)
• Coelopeltis dione — Eichwald, 1841: 120 (fide Boulenger 1894)
• Zamenis trabalis — Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854: 689
• Elaphis dione — Duméril & Bibron, 1854: 248
• Elaphis dione — Günther, 1864: 240
• Coluber dione — Boulenger, 1894: 44
• Zamenis trabalis — Müller, 1895: 203
• Coluber dione — Stone, 1899: 184
• Elaphe dione — Stejneger, 1907: 315
• Zamenis Pellioti, 1910
• Coluber dione — Boulenger, 1913
• Elaphe czerskii Nikolsky, 1914
• Elaphe dione niger N.A.Golubeva, 1923
• Elaphe dione tenebrosa N.I.Sobolewsky, 1929
• Elaphe dione — Engelmann et al., 1993
• Elaphe dione — Schulz, 1996
• Elaphe dione — Utiger et al., 2002

References

• Pallas, P.S. 1773. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reiches, vol. 2. Kaiserl. Akad. Wiss., St. Petersburg, 744 pp.
• Günther, A. 1864. The Reptiles of British India. London (Taylor & Francis), xxvii + 452 pp.
• Golubeva, N.A. 1923. О ящерицах и змеях зоологического музея Томского университета, относящихся к западно-сибирской фауне. Izvestiya Gosudarstvennogo Tomskogo Universiteta 72(Art. 9): 1–4. PDF (Russian) Reference page. 
• Engelmann, W.E. et al. 1993. Lurche und Kriechtiere Europas. Neumann Verlag (Radebeul, Germany), 440 pp.
• Elaphe dione at the New Reptile Database. Accessed on 02 sep 2008.

Vernacular names

English: Steppes Ratsnakes