Trimorphodon lambda
Cope, 1886
try-MORE-foe-dawn — LAM-duh
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
California Lyre Snake (Trimorphodon vandenburghi: 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 Lyre Snake (Trimorphodon lambda: 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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1886
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Cope, Edward D. Thirteenth contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 23:271-287
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1928
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Klauber, Laurence M. The Trimorphodon (Lyre Snake) of California, with notes on the species of the adjacent areas. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 5(11):183-194
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1940
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Klauber, Laurence M. The lyre snakes (genus Trimorphodon) of the United States. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 9(19):163-194
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1958
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Gehlbach, Frederick R. A first record for Trimorphodon lambda in New Mexico. Copeia 1958(3):222
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1971
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Gehlbach, Frederick R. Lyre snakes of the Trimorphodon biscutatus complex: A taxonomic rsum. Herpetologica 27:200-211
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1984
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Scott, Norman J., Jr. and Roy W. McDiarmid. Trimorphodon. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (352):1-2
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2016
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Myers, Edward A., Michael J. Hickerson, and Frank T. Burbrink. Asynchronous diversification of snakes in the North American warm deserts. Journal of Biogeography 44(2):1-14
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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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