Phyllorhynchus decurtatus
(Cope, 1868)
fil-oh-RINK-us — dee-kur-taw-tus
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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First instance(s) of published English names:
St. Lucas Phimothyra (Phimothrya decurtata: 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); Lower California Leaf-nosed Snake (Phyllorhynchus decurtatus: 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.); Leaf-nosed Snake (Phyllorhynchus decurtatus: Schmidt, Karl Peterson and D. D. Davis. 1941. Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. C.P. Putnam and Sons, New York. 365pp.); Cloudy Leaf-nosed Snake (Phyllorhynchus decurtatus nubilus: Schmidt, Karl Peterson and D. D. Davis. 1941. Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. C.P. Putnam and Sons, New York. 365pp.); Desert Leaf-nosed Snake (Phyllorhynchus decurtatus perkinsi: Schmidt, Karl Peterson and D. D. Davis. 1941. Field Book of Snakes of the United States and Canada. C.P. Putnam and Sons, New York. 365pp.); Sonora Leaf-nosed Snake (Phyllorhynchus decurtatus: 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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1868
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Cope, Edward D. Sixth contribution to the herpetology of Tropical America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 20:305-313
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1935
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Klauber, Laurence M. Phyllorhynchus, the leaf-nosed snake. Bulletins of the Zoological Society of San Diego (12):1-31
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1940
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Klauber, Laurence M. Two new subspecies of Phyllorhynchus, the leaf-nosed snake, with notes on the genus. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 9(20):195-214
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1970
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Bury, R. Bruce, Franklin Gress, and George C. Gorman. Karyotypic survey of some colubrid snakes from western North America. Herpetologica 26(4):461-466
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1972
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Baker, Robert J., George A. Mengden, and James J. Bull. Karyotypic studies of thirty-eight species of North American snakes . Copeia 1972(2):257-265
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1993
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McCleary, Ryan J. R. and McDiarmid, Roy W. Phyllorhynchus decurtatus Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (580):1-7
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2004
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Gardner, Stephanie A. and Joseph R. III Mendelson. Taxonomy and geographic variation in the Leaf-Nosed Snake Phyllorhynchus decurtatus (Squamata: Colubridae). Journal of Herpetology 38(2):187-196
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2017
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Bezy, Robert L., Philip C. Rosen, Thomas R. Van Devender, and Erik F. Enderson. Southern distributional limits of the Sonoran Desert herpetofauna
along the mainland coast of northwestern Mexico Mesoamerican Herpetology 4(1):138-167
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