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Baja California Coachwhip
Masticophis fuliginosus (Cope, 1895)

Current SSAR Comments:
O’Connell and Smith (2018, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 127: 356–366) support recognizing M. fuliginosus as a species.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.04.09.21.53.10)
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First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

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

Pertinent LIterature:
2018 O'Connell, Kyle A. and Eric N. Smith. The effect of missing data on coalescent species delimitation and a taxonomic revision of whipsnakes (Colubridae: Masticophis). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 127(2018):356-366

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