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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Middle American Gopher Snake
Common Names in German:
Gestreifte Kiefernatter
Description
Family Colubridae
The family Colubridae, which includes the kingsnakes (Lampropeltis spp. ), is the largest, most widespread, and diverse family of snakes , with few physical characteristics universal among all species. The family contains 70 percent of the known species of snakes, with more than 1700 species worldwide (Pough et al. 1998). Although some colubrids are dangerously venomous , most are harmless to humans. [1]
Habitat
Ecology: It inhabits wet forest
, pine forest and cloud forest
.[2]
List of Habitats
:1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
1.9Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- Auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Reptilia
()
- Reptiles
- Subclass:
Diapsida
()
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
()
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
()
-
- Order:
Squamata
()
- Suborder:
Serpentes
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Superfamily:
Colubroidea
()
- Family:
Colubridae
()
- Colubrids
- Subfamily:
Colubrinae
()
- Genus:
Pituophis
()
- Stull, 1929
- Specific name:
lineaticollis
- Cope
- Scientific name: - Pituophis lineaticollis Cope
- Specific name:
lineaticollis
- Cope
- Genus:
Pituophis
(
- Subfamily:
Colubrinae
(
- Family:
Colubridae
(
- Superfamily:
Colubroidea
(
- Suborder:
Serpentes
(
- Order:
Squamata
(
- Superorder:
Lepidosauria
(
- Infraclass:
Lepidosauromorpha
(
- Subclass:
Diapsida
(
- Class:
Reptilia
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Unambiguous Synonyms
- Arizona lineaticollis Cope 1861: 300
- Coluber lineaticollis Boulenger 1894: 64
- Pituophis deppei - JOHNSON 1984 /i> (Fide Villa Et Al. 1988)
- Pituophis deppi pholidostictus JAN 1863 /i> (Fide Hallermann 2007)
- Pituophis lineaticollis — GÜnther 1894: 124
- Pituophis lineaticollis lineaticollis — Liner 2007
- Pituophis lineaticollis — Liner 1994
- Pituophis lineaticollis — Peters & Orejas-Miranda 1970: 247
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Uetz P.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Pituophis
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 57 species and subspecies in this genus:
P. affinis · P. annectens · P. bellona · P. catenifer (Vertebralis: Cape Gopher Snake) · P. catenifer affinis (Sonoran Gopher Snake) · P. catenifer annectans · P. catenifer annectens (San Diego Gopher Snake) · P. catenifer bimaris · P. catenifer catenifer (Pacific Gopher Snake) · P. catenifer coronalis · P. catenifer deserticola (Great Basin Gopher Snake) · P. catenifer fulginatus · P. catenifer fuliginatus · P. catenifer insulanus · P. catenifer pumilis (Santa Cruz Gopher Snake) · P. catenifer sayi (Gopher Snake) · P. catenifer vertebralis · P. deppei (Mexican Bull Snake) · P. deppei deppei (Mexican Bull Snake) · P. deppei gibsoni · P. deppei jani · P. deppi · P. deppi deppi · P. deppi pholidostictus · P. insulanus · P. lineaticollis (Middle American Gopher Snake) · P. lineaticollis gibsoni · P. lineaticollis lineaticollis (Middle American Gopher Snake) · P. lodingi · P. malanoleucis · P. melanoelucus lodingi · P. melanoleucas · P. melanoleucos · P. melanoleucus (Northern Pine Snake) · P. melanoleucus affinis · P. melanoleucus annectens · P. melanoleucus bimaris · P. melanoleucus cantenifer (Pacific Gopher Snake) · P. catenifer subsp. catenifer · P. melanoleucus deserticola · P. melanoleucus lodingi (Black Pine Snake) · P. melanoleucus melanoleucus (Northern Pine Snake) · P. melanoleucus mugitus (Florida Pine Snake) · P. melanoleucus pumilis · P. melanoleucus pumilus · P. melanoleucus ruthveni · P. melanoleucus sayi · P. melanoleucus vertebralis · P. melanoleucus x · P. modestum · P. ruthveni (Louisiana Pine Snake) · P. sayi · P. sayii · P. sayi affinis · P. sayi sayi · P. ullana · P. vertebralis
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Further Reading
- Boulenger (1894) Catalogue Snakes, Vol. II.
- Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 47.
- Cope (1861) Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 13: 292-306
- Duellman (1960) Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. 10: 599-610.
- Flores-Villela, O. (1993a): Herpetofauna mexicana. Lista anotada de especies de anfibios y reptiles de México, cambios taxonómicos recientes, y nuevas especies. - In: Special publication No. 17 (C. J. MCCOY ed.), pp. [1-73]
- Flores-Villela, Oscar / McCoy, C. J., ed. 1993. Herpetofauna Mexicana: Lista anotada de las especies de anfibios y reptiles de México, cambios taxonómicos recientes, y nuevas especies. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication, no. 17. Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. iv + 73. ISBN: 0-911239-42-1.
- Günther (1885) Reptilia and Batrachia. Biologia Centrali-Américana.
- Köhler, G. 2003. Reptiles of Central America. Herpeton, Germany. 368 pp.
- Notes on amphibians and reptiles of Michoacan, Mexico [by] Karl P. Schmidt and Frederick A. Shannon. [Chicago]1947. ENG url p. 79.
- Peters et al. (1970) Catalogue Neotropical Squamata.
- Rodríguez-Robles et al. (2000) Mol. Phyl. Evol. 14 (1): 35-50
- Stuart (1954) Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 67: 159-178.
- Stull (1932) Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich. (250): 1-5
- Stull (1940) United States National Museum Bulletin (175): 1-225
- The University of Kansas science bulletin. [Lawrence]University of Kansas. ENG url p. 463.
- Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. [San Diego]: The Society, 1905- ENG url p. 316.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- Ponce-Campos, P. & GarcÃa Aguayo, A. 2007. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.
- Uetz, Peter. The Reptile Database
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:
- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2543777
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Rep-24637
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 585984
- IUCN ID: 63872
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 134541
Footnotes
- Painter, Charles W., Chuck L. Hayes, and James N. Stuart "Recovery and Conservation of the Gray-Banded Kingsnake. New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. May 1, 2002. [back]
- Ponce-Campos, P. & GarcÃa Aguayo, A. 2007. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]
