Reptilia - Squamata - Colubridae
Synonyms: Bascanion Baird and Girard 1853, Nanus Bachmayer and Szyndlar 1985
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Parent taxon: Colubrinae according to D. Parmley and J. A. Holman 1995
See also Bachmayer and Szyndlar 1985, Bachmayer and Szyndlar 1987, Behler and King 1979, Carroll 1988, Cernansky et al. 2015, Cope 1875, Gilmore 1938, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Holman 1985, Kotsakis 1977, Parmley and Hunter 2010, Rage 1984 and Szyndlar 1987
Sister taxa: Ameiseophis, Arizona, Coluber etruriae, Coronella, Cyclophiops, Dinodon, Drymobius, Elaphe, Ficimia, Floridaophis, Lampropeltis, Liochlorophis, Macroprotodon, Masticophis, Miocoluber, Nebraskophis, Opheodrys, Oxybelis, Paracoluber, Phyllorhynchus, Pituophis, Salvadora, Stilosoma, Telescopus, Texasophis, Zelceophis, Zilantophis
Subtaxa: Coluber acuminatus Coluber beggiatoi Coluber cadurci Coluber caspioides Coluber caspius Coluber constrictor Coluber dolnicensis Coluber fossilis Coluber freybergi Coluber gervaisii Coluber hungaricus Coluber lafonti Coluber lobsingensis Coluber merkurensis Coluber ombonii Coluber planicarinatus Coluber plioagellus Coluber pouchetii Coluber robertmertensi Coluber suevicus Coluber viridiflavus
Type: Coluber constrictor
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Austria (2 collections), Bulgaria (1), France (10), Georgia (1), Greece (1), Italy (7), Spain (1), United States (35: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia)
• Blancan of United States (8: Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (1)
• Pliocene of Austria (3), France (1), Hungary (3), Italy (1), Moldova (5), Morocco (1), Poland (3), Slovakia (1)
• MN 13 of Hungary (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (3: Indiana, Nevada, Oklahoma)
• Miocene of Austria (2), the Czech Republic (4), France (4), Germany (9), Hungary (8), Poland (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (2), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Nebraska)
• Oligocene of France (11)
Total: 135 collections including 163 occurrences
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