Pantherophis

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus:
Species (8): P. alleghaniensis – P. bairdi – P. emoryi – P. guttatus – P. obsoletus – P. quadrivittatus – P. ramspotti – P. vulpinus

Pantherophis Fitzinger, 1843: 25

• Type species: Coluber guttatus Linnaeus, 1766, by original designation.

• Scotophis Baird & Girard, 1853: 73
  • Type species: Coluber alleghaniensis Holbrook, 1836, by original designation.

• Mintonius Collins & Taggart, 2008: 16 [synonymized by Pyron & Burbrink (2009: 528)]
  • Type species: Scotophis vulpinus Baird & Girard, 1853, by original designation.

• Fitzinger, L. 1843. Systema Reptilium. Fasciculus primus. Amblyglossae. Braumüller et Seidel: Wien. vi + 106 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Baird, S.F. & Girard, C. 1853. Catalogue of North American Reptiles in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1.–Serpents. Smithsonian Institution: Washington. xvi + 172 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Collins, J.T. & Taggart, T.W. 2008. An alternative classification of the New World Rat Snakes (genus Pantherophis [Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae]). Journal of Kansas Herpetology 26: 16–18. ResearchGate Reference page. 

• Utiger, U., Helfenberger, N., Schätti, B., Schmidt, C., Ruf, M. & Ziswiler, V. 2002. Molecular Systematics and Phylogeny of Old and New World Ratsnakes, Elaphe Auct., and Related Genera (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 9(2): 105–124. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2002-9-2-105-124 [nonfunctional] Reference page. 
• Burbrink, F.T., Gehara, M., McKelvy, A.D. & Myers, E.A. 2021. Resolving spatial complexities of hybridization in the context of the gray zone of speciation in North American ratsnakes (Pantherophis obsoletus complex). Evolution 75(2): 260–277. DOI: 10.1111/evo.14141 Reference page. 
• Burbrink, F.T., Pyron, R.A., Gehara, M., McKelvy, A.D. & Myers, E.A. 2021. The corrected taxonomic history of the North American ratsnakes (Pantherophis obsoletus complex). Herpetological Review 52(3): 537–547. Reference page. 
• Hillis, D.M. & Wüster, W. 2021. Taxonomy and Nomenclature of the Pantherophis obsoletus Complex. Herpetological Review 52(1): 51–52. Reference page. 

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, R., F. Reyes, J. Kudera & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Pantherophis . The Reptile Database. Accessed on 1 November 2023.

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