Thamnophis rossmani CONANT, 2000
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| Higher Taxa | Colubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Rossman's Garter Snake
G: Rossmans Strumpfbandnatter |
| Synonym | Thamnophis rossmani CONANT 2000
Thamnophis rossmani — WALLACH et al. 2014: 725 |
| Distribution | Mexico (Nayarit)
Type locality: open roadside ditch 1.4 km NW of the small settlement of San Cayetano, Nayarit, Mexico.
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| Reproduction | viviparous |
| Types | Holotype: LSUMZ 30390 |
| Comment | |
| Etymology | Named after Douglas Athon Rossman (1936-2015), American herpetologist. See Wilson & Boundy for an obituary. |
| References |
- Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
- Bourguignon, T. 2002. Strumpfbandnattern: Herkunft - Pflege - Arten. E. Ulmer Verlag, 125 pp.
- Conant,R. 2000. A new species of garter snake from Western Mexico. Occ. Pap. Mus. Nat. Sci., Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, No. 76: 1-7 - get paper here
- Hallmen, M. & Chlebowy, J. 2001. Strumpfbandnattern. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 192 pp. - get paper here
- Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp
- Luja, Víctor H., Jesús Alberto López-Solís, and Omar Alexis Hernández López. 2016. Thamnophis rossmani Conant, 2000. Reproduction. Mesoamerican Herpetology 3(4): 1024–1026 - get paper here
- Wallach, Van; Kenneth L. Williams , Jeff Boundy 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. Taylor and Francis, CRC Press, 1237 pp.
- Wilson, Larry David and Jeff Boundy. 2015. Obituary: Douglas Athon Rossman 1936-2015: The gentle renaissance man of herpetology. Herpetological Review 46 (4): 716-719
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