Masticophis anthonyi (STEJNEGER, 1901)

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Higher Taxa	Colubridae, Colubrinae, Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Clarion Island Whip Snake S: Látigo de Isla Clarión
Synonym	Bascanion anthonyi STEJNEGER 1901: 715 Masticophis anthonyi — SMITH & TAYLOR 1945: 94 Masticophis anthonyi — LINER 1994 Coluber anthonyi — LINER 2007 Masticophis anthonyi — WALLACH et al. 2014: 417 Masticophis anthonyi — JOHNSON et al. 2017 Masticophis anthonyi — MYERS et al. 2017
Distribution	Mexico (Clarion Island) Type locality: “Clarion Island, Revilla Gigedo group, west coast of Mexico”
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: USNM 24390, Collected by: A. W. Anthony; Collection Date: April 1897 (according to Stejneger 1901) Paratypes: (n=12) same information as holotype; 4 adult males USNM 24382, 24384, 24392, 24394; 7 adult female USNM 24385-89, 24391, 24393; 1 young 24383.
Diagnosis	Diagnosis: Scales in 17 rows; ventrals, 186-204; caudals, 97-112; frontal, at a line between centers of eyes, much narrower than supraocular; supralabials 8, fourth and fifth entering eye; a subocular; interparietal suture much shorter than distance from tip of snout to frontal; color above walnut brown, more or less uniform, and with scattered black spots. (Stejneger 1901)
Comment
Etymology	Named after Alfred Webster Anthony (1865-1939), American collector, conservationist, ornithologist, and naturalist.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Brattstrom, B.H. 1955. Notes on the herpetology of the Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico. American Midland Naturalist 54(1): 219-229. - get paper here Heimes, P. 2016. Snakes of Mexico. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 572 pp Johnson, J. D., L. D. Wilson, V. Mata-Silva, E. García-Padilla, and D. L. DeSantis. 2017. The endemic herpetofauna of Mexico: organisms of global significance in severe peril. Mesoamerican Herpetology 4 (3): 544–620 - get paper here Lemos-Espinal JA, Smith GR, Pierce LJS, Painter CW 2020. The amphibians and reptiles of Colima, Mexico, with a summary of their conservation status. ZooKeys 927: 99-125 - get paper here Liner, Ernest A. 2007. A CHECKLIST OF THE AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES OF MEXICO. Louisiana State University Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science 80: 1-60 - get paper here Myers, Edward A.; Jamie L. Burgoon, Julie M. Ray, Juan E. Martínez-Gómez, Noemí Matías- Ferrer, Daniel G. Mulcahy, and Frank T. Burbrink 2017. Coalescent Species Tree Inference of Coluber and Masticophis. Copeia 105 (4): 642-650 - get paper here Stejneger, Leonhard 1901. Description of a new species of snake from Clarion Island, West Coast of Mexico. Proc. US Natl. Mus. 23 (1231): 715-717 - 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.
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information https://www.facebook.com/groups/stshc/posts/425558256335445/ Google images

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