Sonora annulata

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 annulata
Subspecies (2): S. a. annulata – S. a. klauberi

Name

Sonora annulata (Baird, 1859)

• Syntypes: USNM 2105–2106.
• Type locality: “Colorado desert”.

Combinations

• Lamprosoma annulatum Baird, 1859: 22 [original combination]
• Chionactis occipitalis annulatus — Cope, 1875 [subsequent combination]
• Sonora occipitalis annulata — Stickel, 1941: 136 [subsequent combination]
• Chionactis annulata — Wood, Fisher & Vandergast, 2014: 10 [subsequent combination]
• Sonora annulata — Cox, Davis Rabosky, Holmes, Reyes-Velasco, Roelke, Smith, Flores-Villela, McGuire & Campbell, 2018 [subsequent combination]

References

Primary references

• Baird, S.F. 1859. Reptiles of the Boundary. In: United States and Mexican Boundary Survey under the Order of Lieut. Col. W. H. Emory, Major First Cavalry, and United States Commissioner. 2, Rept., Pt.2. Department of the Interior, Washington, 35 pp.
• Wood, D.A., Fisher, R.N. & Vandergast, A.G. 2014. Fuzzy Boundaries: Color and Gene Flow Patterns among Parapatric Lineages of the Western Shovel-Nosed Snake and Taxonomic Implication. PLoS One 9(5): e97494. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097494 Reference page. 
• 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. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Sonora annulata. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 11 March 2022.

Vernacular names

English: Colorado Desert Shovel-nose Snake