Trimorphodon lyrophanes
(Cope, 1860)
try-MORE-foe-dawn — leer-ohw-FAW-nees
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Jew's-harp Snake (Trimorphodon lyrophanes: 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); Lyre Snake (Trimorphodon lyrophanes: 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.); Arizona Lyre Snake (Trimorphodon lyrophanes: 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.); California Lyre Snake (Trimorphodon vandenburghi: 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. Notes and descriptions of new and little known species of American reptiles. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 12:339-345
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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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1935
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Cowles, Raymond B. and Charles M. Bogert. Observations on the California lyre snake, Trimorphodon vandenburghi Klauber, with notes on the effectiveness of its venom. Copeia 1935(2):80-85
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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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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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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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