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Short-tailed Kingsnake
Lampropeltis extenuata (Brown, 1890)

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

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Little Brown Bead Snake (Anguis minor fuscus maculatus: Catesby, Mark. 1754. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands: Containing the Figures of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects, and Plants: Particularly the Forest-trees, Shrubs, and other Plants, not Hitherto Described, or Very Incorrectly Figured by Authors. Together with Their Descriptions in English and French. To which, are Added Observations on the Air, Soil, and Waters: with Remarks upon Agriculture, Grain, Pulse, Roots, &c. To the Whole, is Prefixed a New and Correct Map of the Countries Treated of. , London. pp.); Short-tailed Snake (Stilosoma extenuatum: 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.);

Taxon Links:

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

Pertinent LIterature:
1890 Brown, A. E. On a new genus of Colubridae from Florida. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 42():199-200
1956 Highton, Richard. Systematics and variation of the endemic Florida snake genus Stilosoma. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Series 1(2):73-96
1962 Woolfenden, G. E. A range extension and subspecific relations of the Short-Tailed Snake, Stilosoma extenuatum. Copeia 1962(3):648-649
1976 Highton, Richard. Stilosoma, S. extenuatum. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (183):1-2
1990 Dowling, Herndon G. and Linda R. Maxson. Genetic and taxonomic relations of the short-tailed snakes, genus Stilosoma. Journal of the Zoological Society of London 1990(221):77-85
1999 Rodriguez-Robles, Javier A., and J. M. De Jesus-Escobar. Molecular systematics of New World lampropeltinine snakes (Colubridae): Implications for biogeography and evolution of food habits. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 68(3):355-385
2007 Bryson, Robert W., JR., Jennifer Pastorini, Frank T. Burbrink, and Michael R. J. Forstner. A phylogeny of the Lampropeltis mexicana complex (Serpentes: Colubridae) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences suggests evidence for species level polyphyly within Lampropeltis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43(2):674-684
2009 Pyron, R. Alexander and Frank T. Burbrink. Neogene diversification and taxonomic stability in the snake tribe Lampropeltini (Serpentes: Colubridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52(2):524-529

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