Cemophora is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae.[1] The genus contains two species, which are endemic to the United States.
| Cemophora | |
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| Cemophora coccinea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Suborder: | Serpentes |
| Family: | Colubridae |
| Tribe: | Lampropeltini |
| Genus: | Cemophora Cope, 1860 |
| Species | |
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Two recognized species, see article. | |
Species
edit- Cemophora coccinea (Blumenbach, 1788)
- Cemophora coccinea coccinea (Blumenbach, 1788) – Florida scarlet snake
- Cemophora coccinea copei Jan, 1863 – northern scarlet snake
- Cemophora lineri (K.L. Williams, B.C. Brown, & Wilson, 1966) – Texas scarlet snake
References
edit- ^ Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D, Paglinawan LE, Bailly N, Kirk PM, Bourgoin T, Baillargeon G, Ouvrard D, eds. (2011). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
Further reading
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- Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I-XX. (Genus Cemophora, p. 213).
- Cope ED (1860). "Catalogue of the Colubridæ in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with notes and descriptions of new species. Part 2". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 12: 241–266. (Cemophora, new genus, p. 244).
- Wright AH, Wright AA (1957). Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press. 1,105 pp. (in 2 volumes). (Genus Cemophora, pp. 111–113).
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