Sonora taylori
(Boulenger, 1894)
so-NORE-uh — tay-LOR-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:
South Texas Ground Snake (Sonora taylori: 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.); South Texas Ground Snake (Sonora episcopa taylori: 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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1894
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Boulenger, George A. Catalogue of Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History), Vol II. Pages in British Museum, London. pp.
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1938
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Stickel, William H. The snakes of the genus Sonora in the United States and Lower California. Copeia 1938(4):182-190
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1943
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Stickel, William H. The Mexican snakes of the genera Sonora and Chionactis with notes on the status of other colubrid genera. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 56:109-128
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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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