Trimorphodon lyrophanes

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Colubroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Lepidosauromorpha Superordo: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Serpentes Infraordo: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Colubroidea

Syntypes: USNM a-b 4680, ♂ and ♀.

Type locality: “Cape St. Lucas, Lower California”, Mexico.

Lycodon lyrophanes Cope, 1860: 343 [original combination]
Trimorphodon lyrophanes — Cope, 1861: 297 [subsequent combination]
Lycognathus lyrophanes — Cochran, 1961: 164 [subsequent designation]
Trimorphodon biscutatus lyrophanes — Gehlbach, 1971: 208 [subsequent designation, reduce to subspecies]

Trimorphodon vandenburghi Klauber, 1924: 17 [synonymized by Grismer, McGuire & Hollingsworth (1994: 69)]

Holotype: CAS 58172, adult ♂.

Type locality: “Wildwood Ranch (elevation 1520 feet) near Ramona, Sand Diego County, California.”

Cope, E.D. 1860. Notes and descriptions of new and little known species of American reptiles. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12: 339–345. BHL Reference page.

Cope, E.D. 1861. Contributions to the Ophiology of Lower California, Mexico and Central America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 13: 292–306. BHL Reference page.
Klauber, L.M. 1924. Notes on the distribution of snakes in San Diego County, California. Bulletins of the Zoological Society of San Diego 1: 1–22. BHL
Gehlbach, F.R. 1971. Lyre snakes of the Trimorphodon biscutatus complex: a taxonomic resume. Herpetologica 27(2): 200–211. JSTOR
Grismer, L. L., McGuire, J.A. & Hollingsworth, B.D. 1994. A report on the herpetofauna of the Vizcaíno Peninsula, Baja California, México, with a discussion of its biogeographic and taxonomic implications. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 93: 45–80.

Devitt, T.J., LaDuc, T.J. & McGuire, J.A. 2008. The Trimorphodon biscutatus (Squamata: Colubridae) Species Complex Revisited: A Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Geographic Variation. Copeia 2008(2): 370-387. DOI: 10.1643/CH-07-045 Reference page.

English: Baja California Lyre Snake

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