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Western Foxsnake
Pantherophis ramspotti (Crother, White, Savage, Eckstut, Graham and Gardner, 2011)

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

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2024.11.19.14.59.20)
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Iowa Minnesota Missouri Nebraska South Dakota

First instance(s) of published English names:
Fox Snake (Coluber vulpinus: 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.); Fox Snake (Coluber vulpinus: 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.); Fox Snake (Coluber vulpinus: 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); Fox Snake (Elaphe vulpinus: Hurter, Julius. 1911. Herpetology of Missouri. Transactions of the Academy of Science St. Louis 20(5):59-274); Fox-snake (Elaphe vulpina: Stejneger, Leonhard H. and Thomas Barbour. 1917. A Checklist of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. pp.); Fox Snake (Elaphe vulpina: 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.); Western Fox Snake (Elaphe vulpina vulpina: 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.); Fox Snake (Elaphe vulpina: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Spotted Adder (Elaphe vulpina: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Spotted Adder (Elaphe vulpina vulpina: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Fox Snake (Elaphe vulpina vulpina: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Pine Snake (Elaphe vulpina vulpina: 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:
1990 Powell, Robert. Elaphe vulpina. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (470):1-3
2007 Burbrink, Frank T. and Robin Lawson. How and when did Old World ratsnakes disperse into the New World? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43:173-189
2008 Collins, Joseph T. and Travis W. Taggart. An alternative classification of the New World rat snakes (genus Pantherophis [Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae]). Journal of Kansas Herpetology (26):16-18
2011 Row, Jeffrey R. Origins of genetic variation and population structure of foxsnakes across spatial and temporal scales. Thesis. Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario Canada. 192pp.
2011 Row, J. R., Brooks, R. J., Mackinnon, C. A., Lawson, A., Crother, Brian I., White, Mary, and Lougheed, S. C. Approximate Bayesian computation reveals the origins of genetic diversity and population structure of foxsnakes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 24:2364-2377
2011 Crother, Brian I., Mary E. White, Jay M. Savage, Mallory E. Eckstut, Matthew R. Graham and David W. Gardner. Reevaluation of the Status of the Foxsnakes Pantherophis gloydi Conant and P. vulpinus Baird and Girard (Lepidosauria). ISRN Zoology 2011(Article ID 436049):15
2012 LeClere, Jeffrey B., Erica P. Hoaglund, Jim Scharosch, Christopher E. Smith, Tony Gamble. Two naturally occurring intergeneric hybrid snakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi × Pantherophis vulpinus; Lampropeltini, Squamata) from the midwestern United States Journal of Herpetology 46(2):257-262

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