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Mountain Patch-nosed Snake
Salvadora grahamiae Baird and Girard, 1853

Current SSAR Comments:
The elevation of S. g. lineata leaves Salvadora grahamiae without subspecies. The standardized English name of the former subspecies S. g. grahamiae “Mountain Patch-nosed Snake” replaces the former species name for S. grahamiae “Eastern Patch-nosed Snake”

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Graham's Snake (Salvadora grahamii: Cooper, James G. 1869. The fauna of California and its geographical distribution. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4():61-81); Graham's Salvadora (Salvadora grahamii: Cooper, James G. 1869. The naturalist in California. The American Naturalist 3(9):470-481); Patched-nosed Snake (Salvadora grahamiae: Van Denburgh, John. 1897. The reptiles of the Pacific Coast and Great Basin: An account of the species known to inhabit California, and Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Nevada. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 5():9-236); Graham's Leaf-nosed Snake (Salvadora grahami: Brown, Arthur, E. 1902. Report of the Board of Directors. Pages 5-22 in Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia. Allen, Lane, and Scott, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. pp.); Patch-nose Snake (Salvadora grahamiae: Stejneger, Leonard and Thomas Barbour. 1917. A Checklist of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. pp.); Patch-nose Snake (Salvadora grahamiae: Strecker, John K. 1922. An annotated catalogue of the amphibians and reptiles of Bexar County, Texas. Bulletin Scientific Society of San Antonio (4):1-31); Mountain Patch-nosed Snake (Salvadora grahamiae: 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.); Rio Grande Patch-nosed Snake (Salvadora lineata: 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.); Patch-nosed Snake (Salvadora lineata: 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.); Texas Patch-nosed Snake (Salvadora lineata: 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

Pertinent LIterature:
1853 Baird, Spencer F. and Charles Girard. Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1. Serpents. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 2(5):xvi + 172

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