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Pantherophis

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Pantherophis is a genus of nonvenomous colubrid snakes endemic to North America and Central America, commonly called ratsnakes or rat snakes. [1]

48 relations: André Marie Constant Duméril, Auguste Duméril, Carl Linnaeus, Central America, Charles Frédéric Girard, CITES, Coluber, Colubridae, Corn snake, Elaphe, Endemism, Gabriel Bibron, Genus, Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Gray ratsnake, Great Plains, H. C. Yarrow, Integrated Taxonomic Information System, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, John Edwards Holbrook, Joseph Bruno Slowinski, Kingsnake, Leopold Fitzinger, Mitochondrial DNA, NatureServe, New World, North America, Old World, Pantherophis alleghaniensis, Pantherophis bairdi, Pantherophis emoryi, Pantherophis gloydi, Pantherophis obsoletus, Pantherophis ramspotti, Pantherophis vulpinus, Pituophis, Rodent, Roger Conant (herpetologist), Slowinski's corn snake, Snake, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Species, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Taxonomy (biology), Texas, Thomas Say, Type species, Venom.

André Marie Constant Duméril

André Marie Constant Duméril (January 1, 1774 – August 14, 1860) was a French zoologist.

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Auguste Duméril

Auguste Henri André Duméril (30 November 1812 – 12 November 1870) was a French zoologist.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.

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Central America

Central America (América Central, Centroamérica) is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with the South American continent on the southeast.

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Charles Frédéric Girard

Charles Frédéric Girard (8 March 1822 – 29 January 1895) was a French biologist specializing in ichthyology and herpetology.

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CITES

CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals.

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Coluber

Coluber is a genus of thin-bodied, fast-moving, colubrid snakes commonly known as racers.

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Colubridae

Colubridae (from Latin coluber, snake) is a family of snakes.

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Corn snake

The corn snake (Pantherophis guttatus) is a North American species of rat snake that subdues its small prey by constriction.

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Elaphe

Elaphe is one of the main genera of the rat snakes, which are found in many regions of the northern hemisphere.

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Endemism

Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Gabriel Bibron

Gabriel Bibron (20 October 1805 – 27 March 1848) was a French zoologist, and herpetologist.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Global Biodiversity Information Facility

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international organisation that focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet using web services.

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Gray ratsnake

The gray ratsnake or gray rat snake (Pantherophis spiloides), also commonly known as the central ratsnake, chicken snake, midlands ratsnake, or pilot black snake, is a species of nonvenomous snake in the genus Pantherophis in the subfamily Colubrinae.

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Great Plains

The Great Plains (sometimes simply "the Plains") is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie in the United States and east of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada.

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H. C. Yarrow

Henry Crécy Yarrow (November 19, 1840 – July 2, 1929) was an American ornithologist, herpetologist, naturalist, and surgeon.

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Integrated Taxonomic Information System

The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) is an American partnership of federal agencies designed to provide consistent and reliable information on the taxonomy of biological species.

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International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) is an organization dedicated to "achieving stability and sense in the scientific naming of animals".

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John Edwards Holbrook

John Edwards Holbrook (December 31, 1796 – September 8, 1871) was an American zoologist, herpetologist, physician, and naturalist, born in Beaufort, South Carolina, the son of Silas Holbrook, a teacher, and Mary Edwards.

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Joseph Bruno Slowinski

Joseph Bruno "Joe" Slowinski, Ph.D. (November 15, 1962 – September 12, 2001) was an American herpetologist who worked extensively with elapid snakes.

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Kingsnake

Kingsnakes are colubrid New World constrictors, members of the genus Lampropeltis, which include milk snakes and four other species.

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Leopold Fitzinger

Leopold Joseph Franz Johann Fitzinger (13 April 1802 – 20 September 1884) was an Austrian zoologist.

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Mitochondrial DNA

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA or mDNA) is the DNA located in mitochondria, cellular organelles within eukaryotic cells that convert chemical energy from food into a form that cells can use, adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

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NatureServe

NatureServe, Inc. is an Arlington, Virginia-based non-profit organization that provides proprietary wildlife conservation-related data, tools, and services to private and government clients, partner organizations, and the public.

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New World

The New World is one of the names used for the majority of Earth's Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas (including nearby islands such as those of the Caribbean and Bermuda).

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Old World

The term "Old World" is used in the West to refer to Africa, Asia and Europe (Afro-Eurasia or the World Island), regarded collectively as the part of the world known to its population before contact with the Americas and Oceania (the "New World").

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Pantherophis alleghaniensis

Pantherophis alleghaniensis, commonly called the eastern ratsnake, is a nonvenomous colubrid species endemic to North America.

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Pantherophis bairdi

Pantherophis bairdi is a harmless colubrid snake species endemic to the southwestern United States and adjacent northeastern Mexico.

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Pantherophis emoryi

Pantherophis emoryi, commonly known as the Great Plains rat snake, is a species of nonvenomous rat snake native to the central part of the United States, from Missouri to Nebraska, to Colorado, south to Texas, and into northern Mexico.

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Pantherophis gloydi

Pantherophis gloydi, commonly known as the eastern foxsnake or eastern fox snake, is a species of rat snake in the family Colubridae.

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Pantherophis obsoletus

Pantherophis obsoletus – also known as the western rat snake, black rat snake, pilot black snake, or simply black snake – is a nonvenomous species of Colubridae found in central North America.

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Pantherophis ramspotti

Pantherophis ramspotti, commonly known as the western fox snake or western foxsnake, is a species of rat snake that is endemic to the upper midwestern United States, west of the Mississippi river.

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Pantherophis vulpinus

Pantherophis vulpinus, commonly known as the western or eastern fox snake (or foxsnake),Crother BI (editor) (2008).

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Pituophis

Pituophis is a genus of nonvenomous colubrid snakes commonly referred to as gopher snakes, pine snakes, and bull snakes, which are endemic to North America.

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Rodent

Rodents (from Latin rodere, "to gnaw") are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.

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Roger Conant (herpetologist)

Roger Conant (May 6, 1909 – December 19, 2003) was an American herpetologist, author, educator and conservationist.

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Slowinski's corn snake

Slowinski's corn snake (Pantherophis slowinskii) is a species of nonvenomous snakes indigenous to Louisiana, eastern Texas, and Arkansas.

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Snake

Snakes are elongated, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.

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Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles

The Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR) is an international herpetological society.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Spencer Fullerton Baird

Spencer Fullerton Baird (February 3, 1823 – August 19, 1887) was an American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist, and museum curator.

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Taxonomy (biology)

Taxonomy is the science of defining and naming groups of biological organisms on the basis of shared characteristics.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Thomas Say

Thomas Say (June 27, 1787 – October 10, 1834) was an American entomologist, conchologist, and herpetologist.

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Type species

In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen(s).

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Venom

Venomous Animals Venom is a form of toxin secreted by an animal for the purpose of causing harm to another.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantherophis

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