Trimorphodon lyrophanes

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: Trimorphodon
Species: Trimorphodon lyrophanes

Name

Trimorphodon lyrophanes (Cope, 1860)

• Syntypes: USNMa-b 4680, ♂ and ♀.
• Type locality: “Cape St. Lucas, Lower California”, Mexico.

Combinations

• Lycodon lyrophanes Cope, 1860: 343 [original combination]
• Trimorphodon lyrophanes — Cope, 1861: 297 [subsequent combination]
• Lycognathus lyrophanes — Cochran, 1961: 164 [subsequent designation]
• Trimorphodon biscutatus lyrophanes — Gehlbach, 1971: 208 [subsequent designation, reduce to subspecies]

Synonyms

• Trimorphodon vandenburghi Klauber, 1924: 17 [synonymized by Grismer, McGuire & Hollingsworth (1994: 69)]
  • Holotype: CAS 58172, adult ♂.
  • Type locality: “Wildwood Ranch (elevation 1520 feet) near Ramona, Sand Diego County, California.”

References

Primary references

• 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. 1861. Contributions to the Ophiology of Lower California, Mexico and Central America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 13: 292–306. BHL Reference page. 
• Klauber, L.M. 1924. Notes on the distribution of snakes in San Diego County, California. Bulletins of the Zoological Society of San Diego 1: 1–22. BHL
• Gehlbach, F.R. 1971. Lyre snakes of the Trimorphodon biscutatus complex: a taxonomic resume. Herpetologica 27(2): 200–211. JSTOR
• Grismer, L. L., McGuire, J.A. & Hollingsworth, B.D. 1994. A report on the herpetofauna of the Vizcaíno Peninsula, Baja California, México, with a discussion of its biogeographic and taxonomic implications. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 93: 45–80.

Additional references

• Devitt, T.J., LaDuc, T.J. & McGuire, J.A. 2008. The Trimorphodon biscutatus (Squamata: Colubridae) Species Complex Revisited: A Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Geographic Variation. Copeia 2008(2): 370-387. DOI: 10.1643/CH-07-045 Reference page. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Trimorphodon lyrophanes. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 16 May 2018.

Vernacular names

English: Baja California Lyre Snake