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Opheodrys carinatus GROBMAN, 1984

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Higher TaxaColubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Florida Rough greensnake
G: Florida-Grasnatter 
SynonymOpheodrys aestivus carinatus GROBMAN 1984
Opheodrys aestivus carinatus — CROTHER et al. 2012
Opheodrys carinatus — RITTMEYER et al. 2021
Opheodrys carinatus — NICHOLSON et al. 2025 
DistributionUSA (Florida)

Type locality: "Archbold Biological Station, Highlands County, Florida."  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: AMNH 65637, adult male, collected by C.M. Bogert in 1944, paratypes: AMNH, USNM, UMMZ, NNW, MCZ, CM, FSM, UIMNH, FMNH 
DiagnosisUnfortunately we had to temporarily remove additional information as this was scraped by multiple AI companies who sell that data. These details, e.g. detailed descriptions are available for collaborators and contributors. We will relaease that material sometime next year. Please contact us if you need any of this data earlier than that. 
CommentSynonymy: Walley & Plummer 2000 listed Opheodrys aestivus carinatus as a synonym of O. aestivus. However, Rittmeyer et al. 2021 found genetic differences between populations and suggested to elevate carinatus to full species status (although they included only 3 samples in their analysis). Note that Carr (1940) and Christman (1980) felt that the distinctiveness of these populations was inadequate for recognizing a subspecies.

On Sep 1, 2025 there were still no sequences of O. carinatus in Genbank / NCBI Taxonomy.

Diet: insectivorous

Habitat: fully arboreal (Harrington et al. 2018). 
References
  • Bogosian, Victor; Eric C. Hellgren, and Raymond W. Moody 2012. Assemblages of Amphibians, Reptiles, and Mammals on an Urban Military Base in Oklahoma. Southwestern Naturalist 57 (3): 277-284. - get paper here
  • Crother, B. I. (ed.) 2012. Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians, Seventh Edition. Herpetological Circular 39: 1-92
  • Enge, Kevin M. 2009. Venomous and non-venomous snakes of Florida. Publication of the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission. 16 pp.
  • Ernst, C.H., & Barbour, R.W. 1989. Snakes of eastern North America. George Mason Univ. Press, Fairfax, VA 282 pp.
  • Grobman, Arnold B. 1984. Scutellation variation in Opheodrys aestivus. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 29 (3): 153-170 - get paper here
  • Liner, E.A. 1994. Scientific and common names for the Amphibians and Reptiles of Mexico in English and Spanish. Herpetological Circular 23: 1-113
  • McVay, John David; Bryan Carstens 2013. Testing monophyly without well-supported gene trees: Evidence from multi-locus nuclear data conflicts with existing taxonomy in the snake tribe Thamnophiini. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 68, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 425–431 - get paper here
  • Mehrtens, J.M. 1987. Living snakes of the world in color. Sterling Publ. Co., hic., New York, NY: 480 pp.
  • Nicholson, K. E. (ed.) 2025. Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding. 9th edition. SSAR, 87 pp. - get paper here
  • Plummer, Michael V. 1987. Geographic variation in body size of green snakes (Opheodrys aestivus). Copeia 1987 (2): 483-485. - get paper here
  • Plummer, Michael V. 1991. Literature: Geographic variation in body size of green snakes (Opheodrys aestivus). Litteratura Serpentium 11 (4): 94 - get paper here
  • Rittmeyer, E. N., Elmonier, A., & Ruane, S. 2021. Phylogeography of the Rough Greensnake, Opheodrys aestivus (Squamata: Colubridae), Using Multilocus Sanger Sequence and Genomic ddRADseq Data. Journal of Herpetology 55 (4): 342-354 - get paper here
  • Schmidt, T. 2002. Grasnattern. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 78 pp. - get paper here
  • Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams, Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. [type catalogue] Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
  • Walley, H.D. and M.V. Plummer 2000. Opheodrys aestivus (Linnaeus) Rough Green Snake. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (718): - get paper here
 
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