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Philodryas  Wagler, 1830
Taxonomic Serial No.: 700309

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
  Synonym(s): Platyinion Amaral, 1923
  
    Pseudablabes Boulenger, 1896
  
  Common Name(s): Green Snakes [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2017   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassTetrapoda   
                      ClassReptilia Laurenti, 1768 – répteis, reptiles, Reptiles  
                         OrderSquamata Oppel, 1811 – Amphisbaenians, Lizards, Snakes, amphisbčnes, lézards, serpents  
                            SuborderSerpentes Linnaeus, 1758 – Snakes, cobra, serpente, serpents  
                               InfraorderAlethinophidia Nopcsa, 1923  
                                  FamilyColubridae Oppel, 1811 – Colubrids, Typical Snakes  
                                     SubfamilyDipsadinae Bonaparte, 1838  
                                        GenusPhilodryas Wagler, 1830 – Green Snakes  
    Direct Children:  
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas aestiva (A. M. C. Duméril, Bibron and A. H. A. Duméril, 1854) – Brazilian Green Racer 
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas agassizii (Jan, 1863) – Burrowing Night Snake 
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas amaru Zaher, Arredondo, Valencia, Arbelaez, Rodrigues and Altamirano-Benavides, 2014  
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas argentea (Daudin, 1803) – Striped Sharpnose Snake 
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas arnaldoi (Amaral, 1932) – Arnaldo's Green Racer 
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas baroni Berg, 1895 – Baron's Green Racer 
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas boliviana Boulenger, 1896 – Bolivian Racer 
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas chamissonis (Wiegmann, 1835) – Chilean Green Racer 
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas cordata Donnelly and Myers, 1991  
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas erlandi Lönnberg, 1902 – Miranda Green Racer 
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas georgeboulengeri Grazziotin, Zaher, Murphy, Scrocchi, Benavides, Zhang and Bonatto, 2012 – Southern Sharpnose Snake 
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas laticeps Werner, 1900  
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas livida (Amaral, 1923)  
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas mattogrossensis Koslowsky, 1898 – Miranda Green Racer 
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas nattereri Steindachner, 1870 – Paraguay Green Racer 
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas olfersii (Lichtenstein, 1823) – Lichtenstein's Green Racer 
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas patagoniensis (Girard, 1858) – Patagonia Green Racer 
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas psammophidea Günther, 1872 – Günther's Green Racer 
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas simonsii Boulenger, 1900  
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas tachymenoides (Schmidt and Walker, 1943) – Schmidt's Green Racer 
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas trilineata (Burmeister, 1861)  
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas varia (Jan, 1863) – Jan's Green Racer 
                                           SpeciesPhilodryas viridissima (Linnaeus, 1758) – Common Green Racer 
       

 References
       
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  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: Philodryas   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Grazziotin, Felipe G., Hussam Zaher, Robert W. Murphy, Gustavo Scrocchi, Marco A. Benavides, et al.   
  Publication Date: 2012   
  Article/Chapter Title: Molecular phylogeny of the New World Dipsadidae (Serpentes: Colubroidea): a reappraisal   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Cladistics, vol 28, no. 5   
  Page(s): 437-459   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1096-0031   
  Notes: doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00393.x   
  Reference for: Philodryas   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Zaher, Hussam, Felipe Gobbi Grazziotin, John E. Cadle, Robert W. Murphy, et al.   
  Publication Date: 2009   
  Article/Chapter Title: Molecular phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes, Caenophidia) with an emphasis on South American Xenodontines: a revised classification and descriptions of new taxa   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia (Săo Paulo), vol. 49, no. 11   
  Page(s): 115-153   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0031-1049   
  Notes: doi: 10.1590/S0031-10492009001100001   
  Reference for: Philodryas   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Philodryas has wrongly been treated as masculine in the literature  
 

 

    


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