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Storeria occipitomaculata (STORER, 1839)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Natricinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
SubspeciesStoreria occipitomaculata obscura TRAPIDO 1944
Storeria occipitomaculata occipitomaculata (STORER 1839)
Storeria occipitomaculata pahasapae SMITH 1963 
Common NamesE: Redbelly Snake, Red-bellied Snake
obscura: Florida Redbelly Snake
occipitomaculata: Northern Redbelly Snake
pahasapae: Black Hills Redbelly Snake
G: Rotbäuchige Braunschlange, Rotbauch-Braunnatter
E: Mexican Yellowbelly Brown Snake [hidalgoensis]
S: Culebra de Cuello Blanco [hidalgoensis] 
SynonymColuber leberis LINNAEUS 1758: 216 (nomen rejiciendum fide WALLACH et al. 2014)
Coluber occipito-maculata STORER 1839: 230
Tropidonotus occipito-maculatus STORER 1839: 230 (fide GARMAN 1884: 30)
Tropidonotus occipito-maculatus — HOLBROOK 1842:55
Tropidonotus leberis — HOLBROOK 1842: 49
Storeria occipito-maculata — BAIRD & GIRARD 1853: 137
Tropidonotus leberis — DUMÉRIL & BIBRON 1854: 579
Ischnognathus occipitomaculatus — GÜNTHER 1858:81
Storeria occipitomaculata — YARROW 1883: 129
Tropidonotus leberis — GARMAN 1884: 27
Regina leberis — GARMAN 1884: plate II
Storeria occipitomaculata — GARMAN 1884: 30
Ischnognathus occipitomaculatus — BOULENGER 1893: 287
Natrix leberis — COPE 1900: 993
Storeria occipitomaculata — COPE 1900: 1003
Natrix leberis — MCATEE 1907
Regina leberis —RUTHVEN & THOMPSON 1913
Storeria occipito-maculata — CONANT 1938
Storeria occipitomaculata — STEBBINS 1985: 198
Storeria occipitomaculata — CONANT & COLLINS 1991: 163
Storeria occipitomaculata obscura — CONANT & COLLINS 1991: 164
Storeria occipitomaculata pahasapae — CONANT & COLLINS 1991: 164
Storeria occipitomaculata — CROTHER et al. 2012
Storeria occipitomaculata — WALLACH et al. 2014: 690

Storeria occipitomaculata obscura TRAPIDO 1944
Storeria occipito-maculata obscura TRAPIDO 1944: 33
Storeria occipitomaculata obscura — CROTHER 2000
Storeria occipitomaculata obscura — TENNANT & BARTLETT 2000: 53
Storeria occipitomaculata obscura — DIXON 2000
Storeria occipitomaculata obscura — ERNST 2002
Storeria occipitomaculata obscura — CROTHER et al. 2012
Storeria occipitomaculata obscura — LILLYWHITE 2014: 31

Storeria occipitomaculata occipitomaculata (STORER 1839)
Coluber occipito-maculata STORER 1839: 230
Storeria occipitomaculata occipitomaculata — CROTHER 2000
Storeria occipitomaculata occipitomaculata — TENNANT & BARTLETT 2000: 51
Storeria occipitomaculata occipitomaculata — ERNST 2002
Storeria occipitomaculata occipitomaculata — CROTHER et al. 2012

Storeria occipitomaculata pahasapae SMITH 1963
Storeria occipitomaculata pahasapae SMITH 1963: 17
Storeria occipitomaculata pahasapae — CROTHER 2000
Storeria occipitomaculata pahasapae — TENNANT & BARTLETT 2000: 54
Storeria occipitomaculata pahasapae — CROTHER et al. 2012

Storeria hidalgoensis TAYLOR 1942
Storeria occipitomaculata hidalgoensis — FUGLER 1956
Storeria occipitomaculata hidalgoensis — MARTIN 1958
Storeria occipitomaculata hidalgoensis — SMITH & SMITH 1976
Storeria hidalgoensis — LINER 1994
Storeria hidalgoensis — LINER 2007
Storeria hidalgoensis — WALLACH et al. 2014: 690 
DistributionS Canada (SE Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Prince Edward Island),
E USA (Minnesota, Iowa, SC Nebraska, E Kansas, E Oklahoma, WC/E South Dakota, E North Dakota, E Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, N Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, S New Hampshire, S Maine)

Type locality: "Amherst," Hampshire County, Massachusetts.

hidalgoensis (invalid): Mexico (Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Quéretaro, Coahuila); Type locality: Mexico: near Zacualtipan, Hidalgo

obscura: USA (Florida, SE Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana); Type locality: Florida, Alachua County, Gainesville.

pahasapae: USA (South Dakota); Type locality: USA: Dunmire’s Lodge, Lead, Lawrence County, South Dakota; H. M.Smith; August 16, 1960.  
Reproductionovoviviparous 
TypesHolotype: lost, collected by Professor Adams, date not reported; specimen apparently lost (Ernst 2002)
Holotype: INHS (= UIMNH) 25061 (16145); E. H. Taylor; August 13, 1938. [hidalgoensis]
Holotype: INHS (= UIMNH) 48564 [pahasapae]
Holotype: FMNH 8561 [obscura] 
DiagnosisDiagnosis: Storeria occipitomaculata is diagnosable by the absence of a loreal, and the presence of six supralabials, two preoculars, two postoculars, and dorsal scales in 15 rows at midbody (PYRON et al. 2016).


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CommentKaryotype: 36 chromosomes (34 macrochromosomes, 2 microchromosomes), females are ZW, males are ZZ (Hardy 1971, Ernst 2002).

Synonymy: Storeria hidalgoensis is not diagnosable morphologically from S. occipitomaculata (Taylor, 1942), and may not represent a valid species. All scalation characters are also occasionally subject to rare individual variation (Ernst & Ernst, 2003). Thus, Pyron et al. 2016 synonymized S. ’hidalgoensis’ with S. occipitomaculata following previous authors (e.g. Trapido, 1944).

Etymology: S. hidalgoensis was named after the type locality. 
EtymologyNamed after Latin occiput ("back part of the head") + macula ("spot, mark"), a reference to the marking on the species head.

S. o. obscura is from Latin obscūrus (feminine: obscūra), meaning "obscure", a reference to less common occurence of the species. 
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