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Trans-Pecos Ratsnake
Bogertophis subocularis (Brown, 1901)

Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
H-spotted Snake (Coluber subocularis: Brown, Arthur, E. 1902. Report of the Board of Directors. Pages 5-22 in Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia. Allen, Lane, and Scott, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. pp.); Davis Mountain Rat Snake (Elaphe subocularis: 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.); Trans-pecos Rat Snake (Elaphe subocularis: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1901 Brown, Arthur Erwin. A review of the genera and species of American snakes, north of Mexico. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 53(1):10-110
1981 Worthington, Richard D. Elaphe subocularis Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (268):1-2

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