Zamenis longissimus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: 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

Zamenis longissimus (Laurenti, 1768)

Type material: not designated, unknown.
Type locality: “Austria”, restricted to “Wien [=Vienna]”, Austria, by Mertens & Müller (1928: 47).

Natrix longissima Laurenti, 1768: 74 [original combination]
Elaphe longissima — Mertens, 1925: 94 [subsequent combination]
Zamenis longissimus — Utiger, Helfenberger, Schätti, Schmidt, Ruf & Ziswiler, 2002: 119 [subsequent combination]

Coluber aesculapii Lacépède, 1789
Coluber flavescens Gmelin, 1789
Coluber asclepiadeus Donndorff, 1798
Coluber leprosus Donndorff, 1798
Coluber pannonicus Donndorff, 1798
Coluber sellmanni Donndorff, 1798
Coluber romanus Suckow, 1798
Natrix scopolii Merrem, 1820
Coluber fugax Eichwald, 1831
Coluber flavescens nigrescens Massalongo, 1853
Coluber aesculapii niger Dürigen, 1897
Coluber aesculapii ventrimaculatus Dürigen, 1897 [substitute name for Coluber fugax Eichwald 1831]
Coluber aesculapii virgatus Dürigen, 1897 [substitute name for Coluber romanus Suckow 1798]
Coluber longissimus deubeli Méhelÿ, 1897
Coluber longissimus subgrisea Werner, 1897
Coluber longissimus lineata Balli, 1944 [not Callopeltis longissimus lineata Camerano 1897]

Laurenti, J.N. 1768. Specimen medicum, exhibens synopsin reptilium emendatam cum experimentis circa venena et antidota reptilium austriacorum, quod authoritate et consensu (In Latin). Joan Thomae: Vienna. 217 pp. BHL Reference page.
Lacépède, B.G.E. 1789. Histoire naturelle des serpens. Tome Second. Hôtel de Thou: Paris. 462 pp. 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.

Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., Reyes, F., Kudera, J. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Zamenis longissimus. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 20 October 2022.
Agasyan, A., Avci, A., Tuniyev, B., Crnobrnja-Isailovic, J., Lymberakis, P., Andrén, C., Cogalniceanu, D., Wilkinson, J., Ananjeva, N., Üzüm, N., Orlov, N., Podloucky, R., Tuniyev, S., Kaya, U., Böhme, W., Ajtic, R., Vogrin, M., Corti, C., Pérez-Mellado, V., Sá-Sousa, P., Cheylan, M., Pleguezuelos, J., Borczyk, B., Schmidt, B. & Meyer, A. 2017. IUCN: Zamenis longissimus (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T157266A49063773. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T157266A49063773.en. Accessed on 20 October 2022.

Taxon identifiers
Zamenis longissimus	BioLib: 373 CoL: 5CVMG EUNIS: 316299 GBIF: 2458538 iNaturalist: 74009 IRMNG: 11313401 ITIS: 1081823 IUCN: 157266 NBN: NHMSYS0021109885 NCBI: 201439 RD: longissimus TAXREF-INPN: 444446 Wikidata: Q256791
Natrix longissima	AnimalBase: 11851 EUNIS: 11171 ITIS: 1083460 Wikidata: Q109521647