I herd that the powers that bee have changed the corn snakes scientific name? If so what is the new name?
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Scientific Name
Colonel_SB
Aug 27, 2003 10:46 AM
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carl3
Aug 27, 2003 04:35 PM
yeah, i thought i read that somewhere too, BUT i dismissed it as a typo or error HOWEVER maybe its correct and maybe it has actually changed, although its been elaphe gutatta for so long i can't imagine anything else would stick
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carl3
Aug 27, 2003 04:57 PM
Pantherophis replaces Elaphe due to a recent study on their lineage.
"Utiger, Helfenberger, Schatti, Schmidt, Ruf & Ziswiler (2002 Russian Journal of Herpetology 9(2): 105-124), using mtDNA, presented evidence that North American Rat Snakes of the genus Elaphe are a monophyletic lineage different from Old World members of the genus, and resurrected the available name Pantherophis Fitzinger for all North American (north of Mexico) taxa."
I believe this link has more info on it:
http://www.folium.ru/en/journals/rjh/contents/2002/2002-02.htm
"the sixth edition of "Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians" by Joseph T. Collins and Travis W. Taggart will appear in Spring 2004.
Copies of current fifth edition, which appeared in 2002, will be exhausted by Fall 2003. The new sixth edition is planned both because of the large number of taxonomic changes that have occurred since September 2002 and because of those that will occur in the next twelve months."
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