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Sonoran Shovel-nosed Snake
Sonora palarostris Klauber, 1937

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
See comments under Sonora.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.04.10.13.21.19)
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arizona

First instance(s) of published English names:
Organ Pipe Shovel-nosed Snake (Chionactis palarostris organica: 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:
1937 Klauber, Laurence M. A new snake of the genus Sonora from Mexico. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 8(27):363-366
2001 Mahrdt, Clark R., Beaman, Kent R., Rosen, Philip C., and Holm, Peter A. Chionactis Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (730):1-6
2001 Mahrdt, Clark R., Beaman, Kent R., Rosen, Philip C., and Holm, Peter A. Chionactis palarostris Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (732):1-5
2012 Cox, Christian L. Phylogenetic systematics, populations genetics, and the evolution of color pattern polymorphism and coral snake mimicry in the snake genus Sonora. Dissertation. University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas. 159pp.
2013 Cox, Christian L. and Alison R. Davis Rabosky. Spatial and temporal drivers of phenotypic diversity in polymorphic snakes. The American Naturalist 182(2):E40-E57
2014 Cox, Christian L. and Paul T. Chippindale. Patterns of genetic diversity in the polymorphic ground snake (Sonora semiannulata). Genetica 142:361-370
2017 Bezy, Robert L., Philip C. Rosen, Thomas R. Van Devender, and Erik F. Enderson. Southern distributional limits of the Sonoran Desert herpetofauna along the mainland coast of northwestern Mexico Mesoamerican Herpetology 4(1):138-167

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