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Great Plains Groundsnake
Sonora episcopa (Kennicott in Baird, 1859)

Current SSAR Comments:
See comments under Sonora. The authority was corrected to reflect the name first appeared by Kennicott in a work by Baird.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Banded Miter Snake (Chionactis episcopus isozonus: Branson, Edwin B. 1904. Snakes of Kansas. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 2(13):353-430); Banded Ground Snake (Sonora semiannulata: Taylor, Edward H. 1929. A revised checklist of the snakes of Kansas. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 19(5):53-62); Great Plains Ground Snake (Sonora episcopa: 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.); Ground Snake (Sonora episcopa: 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:
1859 Kennicott, Robert. Lamprosomum episcopum. Pages in Pages 22, plate 28, figure 22. Emory, William H. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey C. Wendell, Washington, D.C.. pp.
1859 Baird, Spencer F. Reptiles of the Boundary, in: Volume 2, pt. 2 United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, U.S. 34th Congress, 1st Session, Executive Document 108. 1-35pp.
2018 Cox, Christian L., Alison R. Davis Rabosky, Iris A. Holmes , Jacobo Reyes-Velasco, Corey E. Roelke , Eric N. Smith , Oscar Flores-Villela , Jimmy A. McGuire and Jonathan A. Campbell. Synopsis and taxonomic revision of three genera in the snake tribe Sonorini. Journal of Natural History 52(13–16):945–988

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