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Texas Lyresnake
Trimorphodon vilkinsonii 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: New Mexico Texas

First instance(s) of published English names:
Texas Lyre Snake (Trimorphodon vilkinsonii: 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

Selected References:
1886 Cope, Edward D. Thirteenth contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 23:271-287
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
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

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