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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: December 31st, 2022.


Taxonomy of the family Colubridae
Bibliography of the genus Senticolis
Biodiversity of the family Colubridae








Genus
Senticolis

American Green Rat Snake

Grüne Rattennatter

Amerikansk Grøn Rottesnog

1987 Senticolis Dowling & Fries (type species: Coluber triaspis Cope 1866)
Contents: 1 species, which is not endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Remarks: The single species of this genus was previously included in Elaphe, and some authors still place it there (e.g., Schulz 1996).
Distribution: As for the single species.

Senticolis triaspis

American Green Rat Snake, Mountain Rat Snake, (Neotropical Rat Snake)

Grüne Rattennatter

Amerikansk Grøn Rottesnog

1866 Coluber triaspis Cope
Elaphe triaspis Amaral 1929
Senticolis triaspis Dowling & Fries 1987
1883 Pityophis intermedius Boettger
Elaphe triaspis intermedia Dowling 1952
1885 Coluber mutabilis Cope
Elaphe triaspis mutabilis Stuart 1948
1894 Coluber chlorosoma Günther (Dowling 1952; Schmidt 1953)
Elaphe chlorosoma Stejneger & Barbour 1917

Other common names:
intermedius: Western Green Rat Snake, Northern Green Rat Snake
mutabilis: Central American Green Rat Snake, Honduran Green Ratsnake
triaspis: Yucatec Green Rat Snake, Peninsular Rat Snake
Distribution: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico (Aguascalientes, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Colima, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico State, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan, Zacatecas), Nicaragua, USA (Arizona, New Mexico).