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Sonoran Lyresnake
Trimorphodon lambda Cope, 1886

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.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arizona California Nevada New Mexico Utah

First instance(s) of published English names:
California Lyre Snake (Trimorphodon vandenburghi: 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.); Sonora Lyre Snake (Trimorphodon lambda: 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:
1886 Cope, Edward D. Thirteenth contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 23:271-287
1928 Klauber, Laurence M. The Trimorphodon (Lyre Snake) of California, with notes on the species of the adjacent areas. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 5(11):183-194
1940 Klauber, Laurence M. The lyre snakes (genus Trimorphodon) of the United States. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 9(19):163-194
1958 Gehlbach, Frederick R. A first record for Trimorphodon lambda in New Mexico. Copeia 1958(3):222
1971 Gehlbach, Frederick R. Lyre snakes of the Trimorphodon biscutatus complex: A taxonomic rsum. Herpetologica 27:200-211
1984 Scott, Norman J., Jr. and Roy W. McDiarmid. Trimorphodon. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (352):1-2
2016 Myers, Edward A., Michael J. Hickerson, and Frank T. Burbrink. Asynchronous diversification of snakes in the North American warm deserts. Journal of Biogeography 44(2):1-14
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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