Cemophora

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: Cemophora
Species (2): C. coccinea – C. lineri

Cemophora Cope, 1860: 244

Stasiotes Jan, 1862: 75
- Type species: Coluber coccineus Blumenbach, 1788, by monotypy.

Cope, E.D. 1860. Catalogue of the Colubridae in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with notes and descriptions of new species. Part 2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12: 241–266. BHL Reference page.
Jan, G. 1862. Enumerazione sistematico delle specie d'ofidi del gruppo Calamaridae. Archivio per la zoologia, l'anatomia e la fisiologia 2: 1–76. BHL Reference page.

Williams, K.L. & Wilson, L.D. 1967. A review of the colubrid snake genus Cemophora Cope. Tulane Studies in Zoology 13(4): 103–124. BHL Reference page.
Rossi, J.V. & Rossi, R. 2003. Snakes of the United States and Canada. Krieger Publishing: Malabar. 576 pp.
Weinell, J.L. & Austin, C.C. 2017. Refugia and Speciation in North American Scarlet Snakes (Cemophora). Journal of Herpetology 51(1): 161–171. DOI: 10.1670/15-125 Reference page.

English: Scarlet Snakes

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