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REPTILIA: SERt'ENTES: COLUBRIDAE ^K ^ ^ i^ COLUBER 



COLUBER L innaeus 



1758 Coluber Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10: 216. Type-species: Coluber constrictor Linnaeus. 

 1818 Scol iophis Lesueur, J. Phys. Chin. Hist. Nat., 86: 257. Type-species: Scol iophis atlant icus 



LesTieur. 

 1826 Hemorrhois Boie, isis von Oken, I9: 582. Type-species: Coluber hippocrepis Linnaeus. 



1826 Tyr ia Fitzinger, Neue Classification der Reptilien: 25. Type-species: none given. 



1827 Haemorrho i s Boie, Isis von Oken, 20: 538. Type-species: Coluber trabalis Pallas - Coluber 



jugular i s Linnaeus. 

 18^0 Periops Waqler. Nat. Syst. Amphib.: I85. Type-species: Coluber hippocrepis Linnaeus. 

 1843 Eremioph i s Fitzinger. Systema Reptilium: 25. Type-species: Coluber trabal is Boie (? = Coluber 



jugular i s Linnaeus). 



1853 Bascani on Baird and Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept.: 53- Type-species: Coluber constrictor Linnaeus. 



1854 Coryphodon Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril, Erp. Gen., ]: 180. Type-species: Coluber capistratus 



L i chtenste i n. 

 I860 Platyceps Blyth, Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 2'): 114. Type-species: Platyceps sem ifasc iatus 



Blyth. 

 1862 Bascan ium Cope (emendation of Bascanion Baird and Girard), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1862: 



338. 



1865 Meqablabes Gunther, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3) 15= 3^- Type-spec 1 es: Megablabes olivaceus 



Gunther. 

 1868 Pol ichoph is Gistl, Blicke Leben U. Natur, 155- [P^PS'" "°t seen; synonymy according to Romer, 



Osteology of the Reptiles, 1556, 576. J 



1855 Acantliocalyx Cope, Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, 18: 204. Type-species: Coluber ventromaculatus 



Gray. 

 1524 Argyrogena Werner. Sitz. Math. -Naturw i ss. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, I33, abt. 1: 5''> f'G- *• Type- 

 species: Arqyrogena rostra ta Werner = Coluber fasc i olatus (Russell). 



Distribution: Central America, North America, Europe, North Africa, Asia, East Indies. 



Content: As few as four or as many as 25, depending upon whether the partition of the genus 



suggested by Clark and Inger, Copeia, 15^3> 1*1-145, is accepted or not. Some recent authors have 

 accepted it (Smith, Taylor, Auffenberg) but others continue to use Coluber in the older sense 

 (Mertens, Minton, Wermuth). Only one species is found within limits of this work. 



COLUBER CONSTRICTOR Linnaeus 



1758 Coluber Constrictor Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10: 216. Type-locality: Canada. 



Distribution: Parts of southern Canada, all of United States, eastern Mexico to northern Guatemala. 



Content: Eight subspecies, according to Auffenberg, Tulane Stud. Zool., 2, 1555> 1*6, of which only 

 one is found within limits of this work. 



Coluber constr i ctor ste jneger i anus (Cope) 



I855 Zamen i s ste jneger ianus Cope, Amer. Nat., 25: 678. Type-locality: Cameron County, Texas. 

 153* Coluber ortenburqer i Stuart, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., 284: 1. Type-locality: 



Kalto Sabana, 3 <" i west of La Libertad, El Peten, Guatemala. 

 1542 C oluber constrictor ste jneger ianus — Muliak and Muliak, Copeia, 1542: 14. 



Distribution: Low elevations, southern Texas through Gulf coastal plain of Mexico to 

 northern Guatemala. 



