Pantherophis emoryi

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

Pantherophis emoryi (Baird & Girard, 1853)

Holotype: USNM 2257, collected by J.H. Clark [U.S.-Mex. Boundary Survey] between 1848–1852, via J.D. Graham. [lost fide Dowling (1951: 43)]
Type locality: “Howard Springs, Tex.[=Texas]”.

Scotophis emoryi Baird & Girard, 1853: 157 [original combination]
Coluber emoryi — Cope, 1875: 39 [subsequent combination]
Natrix emoryi — Cope, 1887: 71 [subsequent combination]
Elaphe emoryi — Dowling, 1951: 44 [subsequent combination]
Elaphe guttata emoryi — Dowling, 1952: 2 [subsequent combination, reduce to subspecies]
Elaphe emoryi — Burbrink, 2002: 473 [subsequent combination, restaure to species]
Pantherophis emoryi — Potts & Collins, 2005 [subsequent combination]

Scotophis calligaster Kennicott, 1859: 88
Coluber rhinomegas Cope, 1860: 255
Coluber laetus Boulenger, 1894: 49 [not Scotophis laetus Baird & Girard, 1853]
Elaphe laeta intermontanus Woodbury & Woodbury, 1942: 139
Elaphe quivira Burt, 1946: 116 (nomen nudum)
Elaphe guttata meahllmorum Smith, Chiszar, Staley & Tepedelen, 1994: 259

Baird, S.F. & Girard, C. 1853. Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1.–Serpents. Smithsonian Institution: Washington. xvi + 172 pp. BHL Reference page.
Smith, H.M., Chiszar, D., Staley, J.R. & Tepedelen, K. 1994. Population relationships in the corn snake Elaphe guttata (Reptilia: Serpentes). Texas journal of science 46(3): 259–292. Reference page.
Woodbury, A.M. & Woodbury, D.M. 1942. Studies of the rat snake, Elaphe laeta, with description of a new subspecies. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 55: 133–142. BHL Reference page.

Burbrink, F.T. 2002. Phylogeographic analysis of the cornsnake (Elaphe guttata) complex as inferred from maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 25(3): 465–476. DOI: 10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00306-8 Reference page.
Potts, George D. & Joseph T. Collins 2005. A Checklist of the Vertebrate Animals of Kansas. Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, 50 pp.

Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Pantherophis emoryi. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 27 June 2020.
Hammerson, G.A. 2007. IUCN: Pantherophis emoryi (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007: e.T63861A12723067. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63861A12723067.en. Accessed on 17 June 2023.

Deutsch: Präriekornnatter
English: Great Plains Ratsnake
español: Culebra ratonera de las planicies

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