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Coluber (racer)

Reptilia - Colubridae

Taxonomy

Coluber was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. Its type is Coluber constrictor. It is the type genus of Colubroidea, Colubridae.

It was assigned to Colubridae by Cope (1875), Hay (1902), Hay (1930), Kotsakis (1977), Behler and King (1979), Bachmayer and Szyndlar (1987), Szyndlar (1987) and Carroll (1988); and to Colubrinae by Holman (1985), Parmley and Holman (1995), Parmley and Hunter (2010) and Cernansky et al. (2015).

Species

C. acuminatus, C. beggiatoi, C. cadurci, C. caspioides, C. caspius, C. constrictor (type species), C. dolnicensis, C. hungaricus, C. lafonti, C. merkurensis, C. ombonii, C. planicarinatus, C. robertmertensi, C. suevicus, C. viridiflavus

Species lacking formal opinion data

C. gemonensis

Synonyms

Bascanion was named by Baird and Girard (1853). It is not extant. Its type is Coluber constrictor.

It was synonymized subjectively with Coluber by Hay (1930) and Gilmore (1938).

It was assigned to Colubridae by Hay (1902).
Coluber beggiatoi was named by De Zigno (1889).

It was considered a nomen dubium by Rage (1988).
Coluber ombonii was named by De Zigno (1889).

It was considered a nomen dubium by Rage (1988).
Coluber lafonti was named by Filhol (1877).

It was recombined as Scytalophis lafonti by de Rochebrune (1880); it was replaced with Rageophis lafonti by Wallach (1986); it was considered a nomen dubium by Rage (1984) and Rage (1988).
Nanus was named by Bachmayer and Szyndlar (1985). It is not extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Coluber by Bachmayer and Szyndlar (1987).

It was assigned to Colubridae by Bachmayer and Szyndlar (1985).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Coluber Linnaeus p. 216
1853	Bascanion Baird and Girard
1875	Coluber Cope p. 39
1877	Coluber lafonti Filhol
1880	Scytalophis lafonti de Rochebrune
1889	Coluber beggiatoi De Zigno
1889	Coluber ombonii De Zigno p. 113
1902	Bascanion Hay p. 480
1902	Coluber Hay p. 480
1930	Coluber Hay p. 269
1977	Coluber Kotsakis
1979	Coluber Behler and King
1985	Nanus Bachmayer and Szyndlar
1985	Coluber Holman
1987	Coluber Bachmayer and Szyndlar p. 30
1987	Coluber Szyndlar p. 65
1988	Coluber Carroll
1995	Coluber Parmley and Holman p. 82
2010	Coluber Parmley and Hunter p. 529
2015	Coluber Cernansky et al. p. 118

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha

Rank	Name	Author
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
—	Squamata	()
suborder	Ophidia	(Latreille 1804)
—	Serpentes	(Linnaeus 1758)
family	Colubridae
subfamily	Colubrinae
genus	Coluber

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Coluber Linnaeus 1758 [racer]

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†Coluber acuminatus Cope 1899

†Coluber cadurci Rage 1974

†Coluber caspioides Szyndlar and Schleich 1993

Coluber caspius Gmelin 1789

Coluber constrictor Linnaeus 1758 [black racer]

†Coluber dolnicensis Szyndlar 1987

†Coluber hungaricus Bolkay 1913

†Coluber merkurensis Ivanov 2002

†Coluber planicarinatus Bachmayer and Szyndlar 1985

†Coluber robertmertensi Mlynarksi 1964

†Coluber suevicus Fraas 1870

†Coluber viridiflavus Lacépède 1789

Invalid names: Bascanion Baird and Girard 1853 [synonym], Coluber beggiatoi De Zigno 1889 [nomen dubium], Coluber lafonti Filhol 1877 [nomen dubium], Coluber ombonii De Zigno 1889 [nomen dubium], Nanus Bachmayer and Szyndlar 1985 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available