The correct species-group name for an Oxyrhopus (Squamata: Dipsadidae) variously called Coluber petalarius, C. pethola, C. petola, or C. petolarius by early authors

Jay M. Savage

doi:10.2988/11-06.1

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1 October 2011 The correct species-group name for an Oxyrhopus (Squamata: Dipsadidae) variously called Coluber petalarius, C. pethola, C. petola, or C. petolarius by early authors

Jay M. Savage

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Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 124(3):223-225 (2011). https://doi.org/10.2988/11-06.1

Abstract

Two available Linnean names of 1758 and two of 1766 are based on snakes of a single species of Oxyrhopus. Which of these names has priority has been unclear. A review of the history of these names establishes Oxyrhopus petolarius (Linné, 1758) as the correct name for the species by action of Lönnberg (1896) as first reviser.

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Jay M. Savage "The correct species-group name for an Oxyrhopus (Squamata: Dipsadidae) variously called Coluber petalarius, C. pethola, C. petola, or C. petolarius by early authors," Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 124(3), 223-225, (1 October 2011). https://doi.org/10.2988/11-06.1

Published: 1 October 2011

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