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Slowinski's Cornsnake
Pantherophis slowinskii (Burbrink, 2002)

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
See comment under P. guttatus

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2024.11.19.15.19.17)
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arkansas Louisiana Texas

First instance(s) of published English names:
Chicken Snake (Coluber guttatus: Beyer, George. 1900. Louisana herpetology. Proceedings of the Louisiana Society of Naturalists 1897-1899():24-46);

Taxon Links:

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

Selected References:
1975 Thomas, Richard A. Taxonomic chaos: Elaphe guttata (Linnaeus), a case in point. Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 11(4):171-176
1983 Raymond, Larry R. and Laurence M. Hardy. Taxonomic status of the corn snake, Elaphe guttata (Linnaeus) (Colubridae), in Louisiana and eastern Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 28(1):105-107
1991 Seigel, Richard A. and Neil B. Ford. Phenotypic plasticity in the reproductive characteristics of an oviparous snake, Elaphe guttata: Implications for life history studies. Herpetologica 47(3):301-307
1991 Collins, Joseph T. Amphibians and reptiles in the upper Mississippi river valley: Systematic and distributional problems. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 66(4):149-152
1994 Smith, Hobart M., David Chiszar, J. R. Staley II, and K. Tepedelen. Populational relationships in the Corn Snake Elaphe guttata (Reptilia: Serpentes). Texas Journal of Science 46:259-292
1994 Smith, Hobart M., D. Chiszar, J. R. Staley and K. Tepedelen. Populational Relationships in the Corn Snake Elaphe guttata (Reptilia, Serpentes). Texas Journal of Science 46(3):259-292
2002 Burbrink, Frank T. Phylogeographic analysis of the Corn Snake (Elaphe guttata) complex as inferred from maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 25:465-476
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
2024 Burbrink, Frank T., Edward A. Myers, R. Alexander Pyron. Understanding species limits through the formation of phylogeographic lineages. Ecology and Evolution 14(10):1-18

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