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Rainbow Snake
Farancia erytrogramma (Palisot de Beauvois in Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801)

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Alabama Florida Georgia Louisiana Maryland Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Virginia

First instance(s) of published English names:
Red-lined Snake (Abastor erythrogrammus: 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.); Red-lined Snake (Abastor erythrogrammus: 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.); Horn Snake (Abastor erythrogrammus: 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); Hoop Snake (Abastor erythrogrammus: 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); Red-lined Snake (Abastor erythrogramus: 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); Red-lined Snake (Abastor erythrogrammus: 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.); Red-lined Horned Snake (Hydrops erythrogrammus: Garman, H. 1892. A synopsis of the reptiles and amphibians of Illinois. Illinois Laboratory of Natural History Bulletin 3():215-403); Hoop Snake (Hydrops erythrogrammus: Garman, H. 1892. A synopsis of the reptiles and amphibians of Illinois. Illinois Laboratory of Natural History Bulletin 3():215-403); Rainbow Snake (Abastor erythrogrammus: Brimley, Clement S. 1915. List of reptiles and amphibians of North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 30(4):195-206); Rainbow Snake (Abastor erythrogrammus: Stejneger, Leonhard H. and Thomas Barbour. 1917. A Checklist of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. pp.); Rainbow Snake (Abastor erythrogrammus: 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

Selected References:
1801 Sonnini de Manoncourt, Charles S. and Pierre A. Latreille. An. X. Histoire Naturelle des Reptiles, avec Figures dissines d'apres Nature. [Natural History of Reptiles, with Figures drawn from Nature]. Tome IV. Chez Deterville, rue du Battoir, Paris, France. 410pp.
1938 Smith, Hobart M. A review of the snake genus Farancia. Copeia 1938(3):110-117
1982 Mitchell, Joseph C. Farancia. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (292):1-2
1982 Mitchell, Joseph C. Farancia erytrogramma. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (293):1-2
1982 Mitchell, Joseph C. Museum and literature records for the rainbow snake (Farancia erythrogramma Palisot de Beauvois). Herpetological Review 13(1):26
1991 Collins, Joseph T. Viewpoint: A new taxonomic arrangement for some North American amphibins and reptiles Herpetological Review 22(2):42-43
2011 Cochran, Tyler T. A review and synthesis of existing literature on Rainbow Snakes, Farancia erytrogramma. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 6(12):1-5
2014 Crother, Brian I. The bold taxonomic hypotheses of Collins (1991): 23 years later. Herpetological Review 45(2):268-272
2024 Harrington, Sean, Isaac Overcast, Edward A. Myers, and Frank T. Burbrink. Pleistocene glaciation drove shared population coexpansion in eastern North American snakes. Molecular Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17625:e17625

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