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Coluber zonatus  Blainville, 1835
Taxonomic Serial No.: 209259

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Species  
  Common Name(s):    
  Valid Name: Lampropeltis zonata (Lockington ex Blainville, 1876)
 
       
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  Current Standing: invalid - other, see comments   
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
       

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  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
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  Reference for: Coluber zonatus   
       
  Source: Snake Species of the World, vol. undetermined, manuscript (version 2004)  
  Acquired: 2004   
  Notes: Working manuscript of follow-up volumes to McDiarmid et al. (1999), "Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1"   
  Reference for: Coluber zonatus   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Lockington, W. N.   
  Publication Date: 1876   
  Article/Chapter Title: Description of a New Genus and Species of Colubrine Snake   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 1, vol. 7   
  Page(s): 52-53   
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  Notes: Available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3180336   
  Reference for: Coluber zonatus   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Smith, Hobart M., and Edward H. Taylor   
  Publication Date: 1945   
  Article/Chapter Title: An annotated checklist and key to the snakes of Mexico   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Bulletin United States National Museum, no. 187   
  Page(s): iv + 239   
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  Notes: Available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7894923   
  Reference for: Coluber zonatus   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Zweifel, Richard G.   
  Publication Date: 1974   
  Article/Chapter Title: Lampropeltis zonata   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles   
  Page(s): 174.1-174.4   
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  Reference for: Coluber zonatus   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Blainville (1835:293) coined the name 'C.[oluber] (Zacholus) zonatus,' but the description is considered by most to be inadequate for definite assignment to a species, and to have been so when it was originally coined; the type specimen was apparently lost by the 1880s. Lockington (1876:52-53) described 'Bellophis zonatus nov. sp.' and said it was 'very probably the same species' as Blainville's, and 'for this reason I have preserved his specific name of zonatus.' There has been disagreement about whether or not this constitutes a homonymy, but Smith and Taylor (1945:84-85) argue that since the names cannot be said to clearly apply to different species, they should not be considered homonyms, and that based on the handling of similar cases in ICZN Opinion 126 (from the 1930s, see p.485), authorship for the currently-recognized species should be given as Lapropeltis zonatus (Lockington ex Blainville, 1876). This view was followed by Zweifel (1974:174.2), as well  
 

 

    


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