Pantherophis guttatus
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Taxonavigation
[edit]Taxonavigation: Colubroidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Pantherophis
Species: Pantherophis guttatus
Name
[edit]Pantherophis guttatus (Linnaeus, 1766)
- Holotype: UUZM 147 (formerly JA 1749), collected by A. Garden between 1760–1761.
- Type locality: “Carolina”, restricted to “Charleston, South Carolina, USA” by Klauber (1948: 6).
Combinations
[edit]- Coluber guttatus Linnaeus, 1766: 385 [original combination]
- Elaphis guttatus — Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854 [subsequent combination]
- Pantherophis guttatus — Utiger, Helfenberger, Schätti, Schmidt, Ruf & Ziswiler, 2002 [subsequent combination]
Synonyms
[edit]- Coluber maculatus Bonnaterre, 1790: 19
- Coluber compressus Donndorf, 1798: 206
- Coluber carolinianus Shaw, 1802: 460
- Coluber molossus Daudin, 1803: 269
- Coluber pantherinus Daudin, 1803: 318
- Coluber guttatus sellatus Cope, 1888: 387
- Syntypes: USNM 9692, collected by G.B. Goode and 5507, collected by T. Glover.
- Type locality: “Palatka, Putnam County, Florida” [T. Glover] and “Arlington, Duval County, Florida” [G. B. Goode].
- Coluber rosaceus Cope, 1888: 388
- Holotype: USNM 14418, collected by H. Hemphill on 20 June 1885.
- Type locality: “Key West, Monroe County, Florida”.
References
[edit]Primary references
[edit]- Linnaeus, C. 1766. Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii: Holmiae. 12th ed. v. 1 (pt 1): 1–532. BHL Reference page.
- 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.
Additional references
[edit]- 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.
Links
[edit]- Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Pantherophis guttatus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 17 June 2023.
- Echternacht, A. & Hammerson, G.A. 2016. IUCN: Pantherophis guttatus (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T63863A71740603. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T63863A71740603.en. Accessed on 17 June 2023.
Vernacular names
[edit]English: Red Cornsnake
Nederlands: Korenslang
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