Elaphe hodgsonii

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 hodgsonii

Name

Elaphe hodgsonii (Günther, 1860)

• Lectotype: BMNH 1946.1.6.15, ♀, collected by M.M. Hermann, Adolphe and Robert von Schlagintweit during their scientific mission to India and High Asia, between 1854-1858. [designated by Kramer (1977: 739)]
• Type locality: “[Tsomoriri,] Ladak, Tibet (15,200 feet above the level of the sea)”.
• Paralectotypes (2): BMNH 1946.1.6.23-24, ♂ and ♀, from “Nepal”, donated by B.H. Hogsdon, date unknown.

Combinations

• Spilotes hodgsonii Günther, 1860: 156 [original combination]
• Compsosoma hodgsonii — Günther, 1864: 246 [subsequent combination]
• Coluber hodgsonii — Boulenger, 1890: 332 [subsequent combination]
• Elaphe hodgsoni — Shaw, Shebbeare & Barker, 1939 [subsequent combination]
• Gonyosoma hodgsonii — Wallach, 1997: 110 [subsequent combination]
• Orthriophis hodgsonii — Utiger, Helfenberger, Schätti, Schmidt, Ruf & Ziswiler, 2002 [subsequent combination]
• Elaphe hogsonii — Chen, Lemmon, Lemmon, Pyron & Burbrink, 2017: 216 [subsequent combination, by implication]

References

Primary references

• Günther, A. 1860. Contribution to the knowledge of the reptiles of the Himalaya mountains. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 28(1): 148–175. BHL Reference page. 
• Günther, A.C.L.G. 1864. The Reptiles of British India. Ray Society: London. xxvii + 452 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Boulenger, G.A. 1890. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia. Taylor & Francis: London. xviii + 541 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Kramer, E. 1977. Zur Schlangenfauna Nepals. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 84(3): 721–761. BHL
• Wallach, V. 1997. A monograph of the colubrid snakes of the genus Elaphe Fitzinger. Herpetological Review 28(2): 109–111.
• Utiger, U., Helfenberger, N., Schätti, B., Schmidt, C., Ruf, M. & Ziswiler, V. 2002. Molecular Systematics and Phylogeny of Old and New World Ratsnakes, Elaphe Auct., and Related Genera (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 9(2): 105–124. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2002-9-2-105-124 [nonfunctional] Reference page. 
• Chen, X., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.M., Pyron, R.A. & Burbrink, F.T. 2017. Using phylogenomics to understand the link between biogeographic origins and regional diversification in ratsnakes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 111: 206–218. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.03.017 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Elaphe hodgsoni. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 28 June 2021.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Hodgsons Kletternatter
English: Hodgson's Rat Snake