Pantherophis guttatus

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Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Reptilia
Subclassis: Diapsida
Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha
Superordo: Lepidosauria
Ordo: Squamata
Subordo: Serpentes
Infraordo: Caenophidia
Superfamilia: Colubroidea
Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Pantherophis
Species: Pantherophis guttatus
Subspecies: P. g. guttatus - P. g. meahllmorum

[edit] Name

Pantherophis guttatus (Linnaeus, 1766)

Type locality: “Carolina” (Linnaeus, 1766); restricted to USA: South Carolina, Charleston County, vicinity of Charleston.

Holotype: Zoological Museum of Uppsala 147.

[edit] Synonyms

• Coluber guttatus Linnaeus, 1766: 385
• 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 floridanus Harlan, 1827: 360
• Coryphodon Pantherinus — Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854: 181
• Coluber guttatus sellatus — Cope, 1888: 387
• Coluber guttatus — Boulenger, 1894: 39
• Coluber rosaceus Cope, 1888: 388
• Pantherophis guttatus — Utiger et al., 2002
• Pituophis guttatus — Burbrink, 2007

[edit] References

• Linnaeus, C. 1766: Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio duodecima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm, Holmiae. 1-532 pp.
• Boulenger, George A. 1894: Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. British Mus. (Nat. Hist.), London, xi, 382 pp.
• Utiger, Urs, Notker Helfenberger, Beat Schätti, Catherine Schmidt, Markus Ruf and Vincent Ziswiler 2002: Molecular systematics and phylogeny of Old World and New World ratsnakes, Elaphe Auct., and related genera (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae). Russ. J. Herpetol. 9 (2): 105-124.
• Pantherophis guttatus at the New Reptile Database. Accessed on 02 oct 2008.

[edit] Vernacular names

Internationalization

English: Red rat snake or corn snake