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Farancia erytrogramma (PALISOT DE BEAUVOIS, 1802)

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Higher TaxaColubridae (Dipsadinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
SubspeciesFarancia erytrogramma erytrogramma (PALISOT DE BEAUVOIS 1802)
Farancia erytrogramma seminola NEILL 1964 
Common NamesE: erytrogramma: Rainbow Snake
seminola: South Florida Rainbow Snake
G: Regenbogennatter 
SynonymColuber erythrogrammus DAUDIN 1803: 93
Natrix erythrogrammus — MERREM 1820: 117
Homalopsis erythrogrammus — BOIE 1827: 528
Helicops erythrogrammus — WAGLER 1830: 170
Duberria ancoralis BERTHOLD 1842: 22
Calopisma erythrogrammum — DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854: 337
Abastor erythrogrammus — GRAY 1849: 78
Hydrops erythrogrammus — GARMAN 1884: 35
Abastor erythrogrammus — COPE 1900: 738
Abastor erythrogramus — COCHRAN 1952 (fide LINER 2004)
Abastor erythrogrammus — COOPER 1967
Farancia erytrogramma — CROTHER 2000: 62
Farancia erytrogramma — ERNST & ERNST 2003: 130
Farancia erytrogramma — WALLACH et al. 2014: 295

Farancia erytrogramma erytrogramma (PALISSOT DE BEAUVOIS in: LATREILLE 1802)
Homolopsis parviceps BLYTH 1854: 301 (fide BAUER & DAS 1999)
Abastor erytrogrammus — THEOBALD 1868
Hydrops erythrogrammus — SCLATER 1891
Farancia erytrogramma erytrogramma — CONANT & COLLINS 1991: 183
Farancia erytrogramma erytrogramma — CROTHER 2000: 62
Farancia erytrogramma erytrogramma — TENNANT & BARTLETT 2000: 297
Farancia erytrogramma erytrogramma — GUYER et al. 2018

Farancia erytrogramma seminola NEILL 1964
Farancia erytrogramma seminola — CONANT & COLLINS 1991: 183
Farancia erytrogramma seminola — CROTHER 2000: 62
Farancia erytrogramma seminola — CROTHER et al. 2012
Farancia erytrogramma seminola — TENNANT & BARTLETT 2000: 299 
DistributionUSA (SE Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, N Florida, South Carolina, S/E North Carolina, E Virginia, S Maryland)

erytrogramma: USA (Virginia); Type locality: États Unis d’Amerique

seminola: USA (Florida)  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesType: unlocated, present location unknown (presumably lost) (A.M.F.J. Palisot de Beauvois) (fide V. Wallach, pers. comm.)
Holotype: UF (formerly Florida State Museum of Natural History) [seminola]
Holotype: ZFMK 36992 [Duberria ancoralis] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (2181 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentIn: Latreille, Hist. Nat. Rept., Vol. 4 fide DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854.

Conservation: Farancia erytrogramma seminola NEILL 1964 is most likely extinct now. The subspecies is only known from 3 specimens that have been caught between 1949 and 1952.

Diet: American eels 
EtymologyNamed after Greek erythros = red and Greek gramma = written, marked or lined — referring to the distibution of black pigment around red scales and longitudinal red stripes (after Beltz 2006). 
References
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