Thamnophis

Thamnophis saurita

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: Natricinae
Genus: Thamnophis
Species (35): T. atratus – T. bogerti – T. brachystoma – T. butleri – T. chrysocephalus – T. conanti – T. couchii – T. cyrtopsis – T. elegans – T. eques – T. errans – T. exsul – T. fulvus – T. gigas – T. godmani – T. hammondii – T. lineri – T. marcianus – T. melanogaster – T. mendax – T. nigronuchalis – T. ordinoides – T. postremus – T. proximus – T. pulchrilatus – T. radix – T. rossmani – T. rufipunctatus – T. saurita – T. scalaris – T. scaliger – T. sirtalis – T. sumichrasti – T. unilabialis – T. validus

Name

Thamnophis Fitzinger, 1843: 26

• Type species: Tropidonotus sauritus Schlegel, 1827 [=Coluber saurita Linnaeus, 1766], by original designation.

Synonyms

• Eutainia Baird & Girard, 1853: 24
  • Type species: Coluber saurita Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation.
• Eutaenia Baird & Girard in Baird, 1854: 14 [emendation for Eutainia Baird & Girard, 1853; preoccupied by Eutaenia Thomson, 1857]
• Prymnomiodon Cope, 1861: 558
  • Type species: Prymnomiodon chalceus Cope, 1861, by original designation and monotypy.
• Chilopoma Cope in Yarrow, 1875: 543
  • Type species: Chilopoma rufipunctatum Cope, 1875, by monotypy.
• Atomarchus Cope, 1883: 1300
  • Type species: Atomarchus multimaculatus cope, 1883, by monotypy.
• Stypocemus Cope, 1885: 387 [unnecessary replacement name for Chilopoma Cope, 1875, incorrectly thought to be preoccupied by Cheilopoma Murray, 1867]
  • Type species: Chilopoma rufipunctatum Cope, 1875, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus. Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel: Wien. vi + 106 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Baird, S.F. & Girard, C. 1853. Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1.–Serpents. Smithsonian Institution: Washington. xvi + 172 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Baird, S.F. 1854. On the serpents of New York; with a notice of a species not hitherto included in the fauna of the state. Van Benthuysen: Albany. 28 pp. BHL
• Cope, E.D. [1860] 1861. Catalogue of the Colubridae in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Part 3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12: 553–566. BHL Reference page. 
• 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.
• Cope, E.D. 1883. A new snake from New Mexico. American Naturalist 17: 1300–1301. BHL
• Cope, E.D. 1885. A contribution to the herpetology of Mexico. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 22: 379–404. BHL

Additional references

• Rossman, D.A., Ford, N.B. & Seigel, R.A. 1996. The Garter Snakes: Evolution and Ecology. University of Oklahoma Press: Norman, OK. xx + 332 pp. ISBN 978-0806128207 Reference page. 
• Conant, R. 2000. A new species of garter snake from Western Mexico. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University 76: 1–7. Reference page. 
• Rossman, D.A. & Burbrink, F.T. 2005. Species limits within the Mexican garter snakes of the Thamnophis godmani complex. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science 79: 1–43. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• 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. 

Links

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2023. Thamnophis . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 22 May 2018.
• Thamnophis – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Strumpfbandnattern
English: Garter Snakes
español: Serpientes de jarretera

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