Eastern Ribbonsnake
Thamnophis saurita (Linnaeus, 1766)
Also calledCobra-fita-oriental (por) · Waabinong Zenbaan Ginebig (oji) · couleuvre mince (fra) · Östliche Bändernatter (deu) · Östliche Streifen-Strumpfbandnatter (deu) · Восточная подвязочная змея (rus) · 東部束帶蛇 (zho)
First described in: Linné, C. Von [= Linnaeus, C.]. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio duodecima, reformata.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
Thamnophis saurita (Linnaeus 1766) Ruthven 1908
Thamnophis saurita (Linnaeus, 1766) Coluber saurita Linnaeus 1766: 385 .— Neotype. FMNH 73119, adult female collected from 15 miles NNE of Charleston, Berkeley County, South Carolina, United States by John Quinby on 20 July 1953 [designation by Schmidt & Conant 1956, see discussion under Anonymous 1956 –1957]; a full chresonymy of this name and its other synonyms is too exhaustive to be discussed here, overviews are provided by Rossman 1970 and Ernst & Ernst 2003 Tropidonotus nicobarensis Sclater 1891a: 241–242 & pl. 6, fig. 5 (syn. nov.).— Holotype. ZSI 8895, immature specimen collected from “Camorta in the Nicobars [Kamorta Islands, Nicobar Islands, India] by Frederik Adolph de Röepstorff between 1868–1883; Sclater 1891b: vii & 42 (enforces original spelling as first reviser); Das et al. 1998: 151; Das 2003: 473; Chandramouli 2022: 31 Tropidonotus nicobaricus . — Sclater 1891a: 231 & 250 (incorrect spelling) Tropidonotus nicobariensis (incorrect subsequent spelling).— Boulenger 1893: 192; Annandale 1905: 174–175; Iskandar & Coljin 2001: 96; Vijayakumar 2005: 10 (misattributes spelling to Sclater 1891a); Rao et al. 2013: 81; Palot et al. 2013: 60 Natrix nicobariensis .— Wal
Tropidonotus nicobarensis Sclater, 1891 is a junior synonym of Thamnophis saurita (Linnaeus, 1766) (Squamata: Serpentes: Natricinae)
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