Natrix astreptophora

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia 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 Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Natrix astreptophora (Seoane, 1885)

Syntypes (n=7): MNHN-RA-1889.580, MNHN-RA-1889.581, MNHN-RA-1889.582, MNHN-RA-1889.583, MNHN-RA-2012.459, NHMW 22174:1 and BMNH 1884.11.20.99.
Type locality: “Galicia”, restricted to “Coruña, Galicíen, Spanien” by Mertens & Müller (1928: 49).

Tropidonotus natrix var. astreptophorus Seoane, 1885: 15 [original combination, as subspecies]
Natrix natrix var. astreptophora — Lankes, 1911: 568 [subsequent combination]
Natrix astreptophora — Pokrant, Kindler, Ivanov, Cheylan, Geniez, Böhme & Fritz, 2016: 885 [subsequent combination, elevated to species]

Seoane, V.L. [1884] 1885. Identidad de Lacerta schreiberi (Bedriaga) y Lacerta viridis var. Gadovii (Boulenger), é investigaciones herpetologicas de Galicia. Vicente Abad: La Coruña. 19 pp. PDF Reference page.
Pokrant, F., Kindler, C., Ivanov, M., Cheylan, M., Geniez, P., Böhme, W. & Fritz, U. 2016. Integrative taxonomy provides evidence for the species status of the Ibero-Maghrebian grass snake Natrix astreptophora. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 118(4): 873–888. DOI: 10.1111/bij.12782 Reference page.

Kindler, C., de Pous, P., Carranza, S., Beddek, M., Geniez, P. & Fritz, U. [2017] 2018. Phylogeography of the Ibero-Maghrebian red-eyed grass snake (Natrix astreptophora). Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 18: 143–150. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-017-0354-2 Reference page.
Fritz, U. & Schmidtler, J.F. 2020. The Fifth Labour of Heracles: Cleaning the Linnean stable of names for grass snakes (Natrix astreptophora, N. helvetica, N. natrix sensu stricto). Vertebrate Zoology 70(4): 621–665. DOI: 10.26049/VZ70-4-2020-07 Reference page.
Martínez del Mármol, G., Geniez, P., Neumann, A., Glaw, F. & Fritz, U. 2025. Phenotypic variability in the western grass snake Natrix astreptophora, with description of a new subspecies from Morocco. Zootaxa 5693(1): 41–65. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5693.1.3 Reference page.