Royal ground snake

Royal ground snake
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Genus:	Erythrolamprus
Species:	E. reginae
Binomial name
	Erythrolamprus reginae; (Linnaeus, 1758)[1]
Synonyms[2]
	Coluber reginæ ; Linnaeus, 1758; Coronella reginae ; — Schlegel, 1837; Liophis reginae ; — A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854; Leimadophis reginae ; — J. Peters, 1960; Liophis reginae ; — Leynaud & Bucher, 1999; Erythrolamprus reginae ; — Grazziotin et al., 2012; Liophis reginae ; — Wallach et al., 2014;

The royal ground snake (Erythrolamprus reginae) is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to northern South America.

Geographic range

It feeds on frogs, frog eggs, tadpoles, fish, small birds, and lizards.

The following subspecies can be distinguished:^[2]^[3]^[4]

Nota bene: A trinomial authority in parentheses indicates that the subspecies was originally described in a genus other than Liophis.

↑ "Liophis reginae ". ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System). www.itis.gov.
1 2 "Erythrolamprus reginae ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.
↑ Liophis reginae. Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
↑ No subspecies are currently recognized by ITIS. See: "Liophis reginae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 28 March 2011.

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Roze JA (1959). "Taxonomic Notes on a Collection of Venezuelan Reptiles in the American Museum of Natural History". American Museum Novitates (1934): 1-14. ("Leimadophis zweifeli, new species", pp. 4–7 + Figure 1, photograph of holotype, on p. 6).
Wagler J (1824). In: Spix J (1824). Serpentum Brasiliensum species novae ou histoire naturelle des espèces nouvelles de serpens, recueillies et observées pendant le voyage dans l'intérieur du Brésil dans les années 1817, 1818, 1819, 1820, exécuté par ordre de sa Majesté le Roi de Baviére. Munich: F.S. Hübschmann. viii + 75 pp. + Plates I.- XXVI. (Natrix semilineata, new species, p. 33-34 + Plate XI., Figure 2). (in Latin and French).

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