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Yellow Rat Snake (quadrivittata)

Pantherophis quadrivittatus (Holbrook, 1836)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Recorded from
USA (Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia [east of the Chattohoochee River], Florida [east of the Apalachicola River]).
Also published as
Coluber quadri-vittatus Holbrook, 1842; Coluber quadrivittatus Holbrook, 1836; Coluber obsoletus lemniscatus Cope, 1888; Coluber reticularis Daudin, 1803; Elaphe obsoleta rossalleni Neill, 1949; Elaphe quadrivittata deckerti Brady, 1932; Elaphe quadrivittata parallela Barbour & Engels, 1942; Elaphe williamsi Barbour & Carr, 1940; Elaphis holbrookii Duméril & Bibron, 1854
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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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Every page naming Pantherophis quadrivittatus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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References

  • Camper, Jeffrey D. (2019). The Reptiles of South Carolina. University of South Carolina Press, 288 Pp. [Review in Copeia 107 (3): 590, 2019].
  • Duméril, A.M.C., G. BIBRON & A.H.A. DUMÉRIL. (1854). Erpétologie générale ou Histoire Naturelle complète des Reptiles. Vol. 7 (partie 1). Paris, Xvi + 780 S.
  • Schulz, & Klaus-Dieter. (1996). A monograph of the colubrid snakes of the genus Elaphe Fitzinger. Koeltz Scientific Books, 439 Pp.
  • Burt, Charles E. (1933). A contribution to the herpetology of Kentucky. American Midland Naturalist 14 (6): 669-679.
  • Kee, Joshua P. (2015). Geographic Distribution: Pantherophis spiloides (Gray ratsnake). Herpetological Review 46 (2): 221.
  • McCallum, Malcolm L., Bradley A. McCallum and Donald B. McCallum, Jr. (2011). Pantherophis spiloides (gray ratsnake) attempted predation and aquatic escape behavior. Herpetological Review 42 (3): 443.

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.