Pseudelaphe flavirufa

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Podiata 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: Neoreptilia Cladus: Parapleurota Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Cladus: Toxicofera Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Pseudelaphe flavirufa (Cope, 1867)

Holotype: USNM 6566, collected by A.C.V. Schott in 1865.
Type locality: “Yucatan”, emended to “Isamal, Yucatán, Mexico” by Cochran (1961: 165), restricted to “Chichén Itzá, Yucatán, Mexico” by Smith & Taylor (1950: 352), and to “the vicinity of Campeche, Campeche, Mexico” by Dowling (1952: 3).

Coluber flavirufus Cope, 1867: 319 [original combination]
Natrix flavirufus — Cope, 1887: 71 [subsequent combination]
Elaphe flavirufa — Gaige, 1936: 299 [subsequent combination]
Pseudelaphe flavirufa — Utiger, Helfenberger, Schätti, Schmidt, Ruf & Ziswiler, 2002 [subsequent combination]

Cope, E.D. [1866] 1867. Fifth contribution lo the herpetology of tropical America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 18: 317–323.
Gaige, H.T. 1936. Some reptiles and amphibians from Yucatan and Campeche, Mexico. Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 457: 289–304. 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.

Lee, J. 2007. IUCN: Pseudelaphe flavirufa (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2007: e.T63879A12716388. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2007.RLTS.T63879A12716388.en. Accessed on 18 May 2026.