Thamnophis rufipunctatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Unidentata, Episquamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Thamnophis rufipunctatus (Cope, 1875)

Chilopoma rufipunctatum Cope, 1875: 544 [original combination]
Stypocemus rufipunctatus — Cope, 1885: 387 [subsequent combination]
Eutaenia rufipuctatus — Cope, 1892: 666 [subsequent combination]
Thamnophis rufipunctatus — Taylor & Knobloch, 1940: 12 [subsequent combination]

Atomarchus multimaculatus Cope, 1883: 1300
- Type material: unknown.
- Type locality: “San Francisco River, New Mexico, on ranch of Mr. H. C. Wilson, which is near the boundary line of Arizona”.

Cope, E.D. 1875. Chapter IV. pp. 509–584 In Yarrow, H.C. Report upon the collections of batrachians and reptiles made in portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, during the years 871, 1872, 1873, and 1874. Report upon geograph Government Printing office: Washington D.C.

Wood, D.A., Vandergast, A.G., Lemos-Espinal, J.A., Fisher, R.N. & Holycross, A.T. 2011. Refugial isolation and divergence in the Narrowheaded Gartersnake species complex (Thamnophis rufipunctatus) as revealed by multilocus DNA sequence data. Molecular Ecology 20(18): 3856–3878. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05211.x Reference page.

Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Thamnophis rufipunctatus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 14 June 2020.
Hammerson, G.A. 2007. IUCN: Thamnophis rufipunctatus (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007: e.T63990A12727179. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63990A12727179.en