Chihuahuan Hook-nosed Snake
Gyalopion canum
Cope, 1860
guy-uh-lope-EE-on — KAN-num
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Dog-nose Snake (Gyalopium canum: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Pug-nosed Snake (Ficimia cana: Van Denburgh, John. 1922. The Reptiles of Western North America: An Account of the Species Known to Inhabit California and Oregon, Washinton, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, British Columbia, Sonora, and Lower California. Volume I. Lizards. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 556pp.); Western Hook-nosed Snake (Ficimia cana: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
The Reptile Database
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1860
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Cope, Edward D. Catalogue of the Colubridae in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with notes and descriptions of new species. Part 2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 12:241-266
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1913
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Nolan, Edward J. An index to the scientific contents of the Journal and Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia [1817-1910] Published in commemoration of the centenary of the academy, March 21, 1912. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1415pp.
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1965
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Ferguson, Gary W. Verification of a population of Ficimia cana in north-central Texas. Herpetologica 21(2):156-157
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1975
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Hardy, Laurence M. A systematic revision of the colubrid snake genus Gyalopion. Journal of Herpetology 9(1):107-132
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1976
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Hardy, Laurence M. Gyalopion, G. canum, G. quadrangularis. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (182):1-4
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2016
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Davis Rabosky, Alison R., Christian L. Cox, Daniel L. Rabosky, Pascal O. Title, Iris A. Holmes, Anat Feldman, and Jimmy A. McGuire. Coral snakes predict the evolution of mimicry
across New World snakes Nature Communications 7(11484):1-9
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