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Baird's Ratsnake
Pantherophis bairdi (Yarrow in Cope, 1880)

Current SSAR Comments:
See comment under P. obsoletus.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Baird's Coluber (Coluber bairdi: 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); Baird's Rat Snake (Elaphe bairdi: 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:
1880 Cope, Edward D. On the zoological position of Texas. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (17):151

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