Orthriophis hodgsoni

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

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Orthriophis
Species: Orthriophis hodgsoni

Name

Orthriophis hodgsoni (Günther, 1860)

Type locality: China: Ladakh.

Synonyms

  • Spilotes hodgsonii Günther, 1860: 156
  • Compsosoma hodgsonii — Günther, 1864: 246
  • Coluber hodgsoni - Boulenger, 1890: 332
  • Coluber hodgsonii — Boulenger, 1894: 35
  • Elaphe hodgsoni Shaw, 1939
  • Elaphe hodgsoni — Smith, 1943: 152
  • Elaphe hodgsoni — Das, 1996: 56
  • Gonyosoma hodgsoni — Wallach, 1997
  • Elaphe hodgsoni — Vogel, 2002 (pers. comm.)
  • Orthriophis hodgsonii — Utiger et al., 2002
  • Elaphe hodgsoni — Sharma, 2004

References

  • Günther, A. 1860: Contributions to a knowledge of the reptiles of the Himalaya mountains. - I. Descriptions of the new species. II. List of Himalayan reptiles, with remarks on their horizontal distribution. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1860: 148–175.
  • Wallach, V. 1997: A monograph of the colubrid snakes of the genus Elaphe Fitzinger (book review). Herpetological Review 28 (2):110.
  • Utiger, Urs, Notker Helfenberger, Beat Schätti, Catherine Schmidt, Markus Ruf and Vincent Ziswiler 2002: Molecular systematics and phylogeny of Old World and New World ratsnakes, Elaphe Auct., and related genera (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae). Russ. J. Herpetol. 9 (2): 105–124.
  • Orthriophis hodgsoni at the New Reptile Database. Accessed on 01 oct 2008.

Vernacular names

English: Hodgson's Rat Snake
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