Thamnophis validus celaeno

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

Holotype: USNM 5281a, subadult ♀. [fide Conant (1946: 262)]

Type locality: “Cape St. Lucas, Lower California”, Mexico.

Tropidonotus celaeno Cope, 1861: 341 [original combination]
Tropidonotus validus celaeno — Cope, 1875: 42 [subsequent combination]
Regina valida celaeno — Cope, 1887: 74 [subsequent combination]
Natrix valida celaeno — Cope, 1892: 670 [subsequent combination]
Natrix celaeno — Van Denburgh, 1895: 154 [subsequent combination]
N[erodia]. v[alida]. celaeno — Fitch, 1981: 26 [subsequent combination]
Thamnophis validus celaeno — de Queiroz & Lawson, 1994: 223 [subsequent combination, by implication]

Holotype: USNM 4681. [lost fide Conant (1969: 112)]

Type locality: “Cape St. Lucas, in Lower California”, Mexico.

Cope, E.D. 1860. Notes and descriptions of new and little known species of American reptiles. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12: 339–345. BHL Reference page.
Cope, E.D. 1875. Checklist of North American Batrachia and Reptilia. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 1: 1–104.
Cope, E.D. 1887. Catalogue of batrachians and reptiles of Central America and Mexico. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 32: 1–98.
Cope, E.D. [1891] 1892. A critical review of the characters and variations of the snakes of North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 14: 589–694. BHL
Van Denburgh, J. 1895. A review of the herpetology of Lower California. Part I - Reptiles. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 2nd Series 5: 77–163.
Conant, R. 1946. Studies on North American water snakes. II. The subspecies of Natrix valida. American Midland Naturalist 35(1): 250–275. DOI: 10.2307/2421355 JSTOR
Conant, R. 1969. A review of the water snakes of the genus Natrix in Mexico. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 142: 1–140. hdl: 2246/1131
Fitch, H.S. 1981. Sexual size differences in reptiles. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 70: 1–72.
de Queiroz, A. & Lawson, R. 1994. Phylogenetic relationships of the garter snakes based on DNA sequence and allozyme vatiation. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 53(3): 209–229. DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1994.1069

English: Cape Garter Snake