Hypsiglena ochrorhynchus

Hypsiglena ochrorhynchus
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Hypsiglena
Species:	H. ochrorhynchus
Binomial name
Hypsiglena ochrorhynchus Cope, 1860

Hypsiglena ochrorhynchus, also known commonly as the coast night snake and the spotted night snake, is a species of snake in the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The species is native to California in the United States and to the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico. There are eight recognized subspecies. ^[2]

Reproduction

H. ochrorhynchus is oviparous. ^[2]

Subspecies

Eight subspecies are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies. ^[2]

• Hypsiglena ochrorhynchus baueri Zweifel, 1958
• Hypsiglena ochrorhynchus gularis W. Tanner, 1954
• Hypsiglena ochrorhynchus klauberiW. Tanner, 1946
• Hypsiglena ochrorhynchus martinensisW. Tanner & Banta, 1962
• Hypsiglena ochrorhynchus nuchalataW. Tanner, 1943
• Hypsiglena ochrorhynchus ochrorhynchus Cope, 1860
• Hypsiglena ochrorhynchus tortugaensisW. Tanner, 1946
• Hypsiglena ochrorhynchus venusta Mocquard, 1899

Etymologies

The subspecific name, baueri, is in honor of American entrepreneur Harry J. Bauer (1886–1960) for his support of the 1958 Puritan-American Museum expedition to Baja California. ^[3]

The subspecific name, klauberi, is in honor of American herpetologist Laurence Monroe Klauber. ^[3]

References

1. Hammerson GA (2019). "Hypsiglena ochrorhycha ". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T90067438A90067449.en. Accessed on 23 April 2024.
2. "Hypsiglena ochrorhynchus COPE, 1860". Reptile Database. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
3. Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN   978-1-4214-0135-5. (Hypsiglena torquata baueri, p. 19; H. t. klauberi, p. 143).

Further reading

• 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". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia12: 241–266. (Hypsiglena ochrorhynchus, new species, pp. 246–247).
• Mocquard F (1899). "Contribution a la faune herpétologique de la Basse-Californie ". Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Quatrième Série1: 297–343 + Plates XI–XIII. (Hypsiglena venusta, new species, p. 327). (in French).
• Tanner WW (1943). "Two New Species of Hypsiglena from Western North America". Great Basin Naturalist4 (1 & 2): 49–54. (Hypsiglena nuchalatus, new species, pp. 49–53).
• Tanner WW (1946). "A Taxonomic Study of the Genus Hypsiglena ". Great Basin Naturalist5 (3 & 4): 25–92, Plates I–III. (Hypsiglena ochrorhynchus klauberi, new subspecies, pp. 71–74; H. o. tortugaensis, new subspecies, pp. 69–71 + Plate II, figures 3–4). ( Nota bene : This issue is dated "1944", but was not published until 1946, due to World War II).
• Tanner WW (1954). "Additional Note on the Genus Hypsiglena With a Description of a New Subspecies". Herpetologica10: 54–56. (Hypsiglena torquata gularis, new subspecies).
• Tanner WW, Banta BH (1962). "Description of a new Hypsiglena from San Martín Island, México, with a Resumé of the Reptile Fauna of the island". Herpetologica18 (1): 21–25.
• Zweifel RG (1958). "Results of the Puritan-American Museum of Natural History Expedition to Western Mexico. 2. Notes on Reptiles and Amphibians from the Pacific Coastal Islands of Baja California". American Museum Novitates (1895): 1–17. (Hypsiglena torquata baueri, new subspecies, pp. 12–16, Figure 1).