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Reptilia    Squamata (part)    Colubridae  

Texas Scarletsnake
Cemophora lineri Williams, Brown, and Wilson, 1966
chem-off-OR-uh — lie-NER-ai

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Texas

First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1966 Williams, Kenneth L., Bryce C. Brown, and Larry David Wilson. A new subspecies of the colubrid snake Cemophora coccinea (Blumenbach) from southern Texas. Texas Journal of Science 18(1):85-88
1967 Williams, Kenneth L. and Larry David Wilson. A review of the colubrid snake genus Cemophora Cope. Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany 13(4):103-124
1985 Williams, Kenneth L. Cemophora, C. coccinea. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (374):1-4
1991 Collins, Joseph T. Viewpoint: A new taxonomic arrangement for some North American amphibins and reptiles Herpetological Review 22(2):42-43
2014 Crother, Brian I. The bold taxonomic hypotheses of Collins (1991): 23 years later. Herpetological Review 45(2):268-272
2017 Weinell, Jeffrey L. and Christopher C. Austin. Refugia and speciation in North American Scarlet Snakes (Cemophora). Journal of Herpetology 51(1):161-171
2018 Dahn, Hollis A., Jason L. Strickland, Alejandra Osorio, Timothy J. Colston, and Christopher L. Parkinson. Hidden diversity within the depauperate genera of the snake tribe Lampropeltini (Serpentes, Colubridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 129(2018):214-225
2018 Dahn, Hollis A., Jason L. Strickland, Alejandra Osorio, Timothy J. Colston, and Christopher L. Parkinson. Hidden diversity within the depauperate genera of the snake tribe Lampropeltini (Serpentes, Colubridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 129(2018):214-225

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