Sonoran Shovel-nosed Snake
Sonora palarostris
Klauber, 1937
so-NORE-uh — pal-uh-ROS-tris
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
See comments under Sonora.
Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arizona
First instance(s) of published English names:
Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake (Chionactis palarostris organica: 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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1937
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Klauber, Laurence M. A new snake of the genus Sonora from Mexico. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 8(27):363-366
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2001
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Mahrdt, Clark R., Beaman, Kent R., Rosen, Philip C., and Holm, Peter A. Chionactis Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (730):1-6
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2001
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Mahrdt, Clark R., Beaman, Kent R., Rosen, Philip C., and Holm, Peter A. Chionactis palarostris Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (732):1-5
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2012
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Cox, Christian L. Phylogenetic systematics, populations genetics, and the evolution of color pattern polymorphism and coral snake mimicry in the snake genus Sonora. Dissertation. University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas. 159pp.
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2013
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Cox, Christian L. and Alison R. Davis Rabosky. Spatial and temporal drivers of phenotypic diversity in polymorphic snakes. The American Naturalist 182(2):E40-E57
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2014
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Cox, Christian L. and Paul T. Chippindale. Patterns of genetic diversity in the polymorphic ground snake (Sonora semiannulata). Genetica 142:361-370
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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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