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Kirtland's Snake
Clonophis kirtlandii (Kennicott, 1856)

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

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Kirtland's Snake (Tropidoclonium kirtlandi: Jordan, David Starr. 1876. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi River, and North of North Carolina and Tennessee, Exclusive of Marine Species. Jansen, McClurg, and Company, Chicago, Illinois.. 342pp.); Kirtland's Snake (Tropidoclonium kirtlandi: Jordan, David S. 1878. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi River, and North of North Carolina and Tennessee, Exclusive of Marine Species. Second Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. Jansen, McClurg & Company, Chicago. pp.); Kirtland's Snake (Tropidoclonium kirtlandi: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Cora Kennicott's Snake (Tropidoclonium kirtlandi: Davis, N. S., and Frank L. Rice. 1883. List of Batrachia and Reptilia of Illinois. Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 1(3):25–32); Kirtland's Snake (Natrix kirtlandi: Hay, Oliver P. 1892. Batrachians and Reptiles of the State of Indiana. Pages 409-624 in 17th Annual Report of the Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources, William B. Burford, Printer and Binder, Indianapolis, Indiana. pp.); Kirtland's Snake (Clonophis kirtlandii: Fowler, Henry W. 1907. The amphibians and reptiles of New Jersey. MacCrellish and Quigley, Trenton, N. J.. 29-250pp.); Kirtland's Water Snake (Natrix kirtlandii: 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.); Spread Head (Natrix kirtlandii: Wright, Albert Hazen. 1950. Common names of the snakes of the United States. Herpetologica 6(6):141-186); Kirtland's Water Snake (Natrix kirtlandii: Wright, Albert Hazen. 1950. Common names of the snakes of the United States. Herpetologica 6(6):141-186); Kirtland's Red Snake (Natrix kirtlandii: Wright, Albert Hazen. 1950. Common names of the snakes of the United States. Herpetologica 6(6):141-186); Little Red Snake (Natrix kirtlandii: Wright, Albert Hazen. 1950. Common names of the snakes of the United States. Herpetologica 6(6):141-186); Kirtland's Water Snake (Natrix kirtlandi: 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
  
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USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1856 Kennicott, Robert. Description of a new snake from Illinois. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8():95-96
1985 Rossman, Douglas A. and Robert Powell. Clonophis, C. kirtlandii. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (364):1-2

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