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Hypsiglena

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Hypsiglena is a genus of small, rear-fanged, colubrid snakes commonly referred to as night snakes. The genus consists of nine species, and subspecies have been maintained pending further investigation.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypsiglena, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2456900	https://www.gbif.org/species/2456900
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	67530	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=67530

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Dipsadidae : Hypsiglena

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Colubridae : Hypsiglena

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Lepidosauromorpha
superorder	Lepidosauria
order	Squamata	Oppel 1811
suborder	Ophidia
-	Serpentes
infraorder	Alethinophidia	Nopcsa 1923
-	Macrostomata	Ritgen 1828
superfamily	Booidea	Gray 1825
-	Caenophidia	Hoffstetter 1939
superfamily	Colubroidea	Oppel 1811
family	Colubridae	Oppel 1811
genus	Hypsiglena	Cope 1860

Scientific Name

Hypsiglena Cope, 1860

Name Published In

Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1860

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Hypsiglena	genus	belongs to Colubridae	stated with evidence	Cope, 1875
Hypsiglena	genus	belongs to Colubridae	stated without evidence	Behler and King, 1979
Hypsiglena	genus	belongs to Dipsadinae	stated without evidence	Uetz, 2005

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

0.13 Ma
Pleistocene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Booidea)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

carnivore

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. L. Behler and F. W. King. 1979. National Audubon Society Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians: North America

Common Name(s)

Night Snakes, Nightsnakes

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypsiglena

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Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)
Hypsiglena affinis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hypsiglena catalinae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hypsiglena chlorophaea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hypsiglena jani species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hypsiglena ochrorhyncha species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hypsiglena slevini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hypsiglena tanzeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Hypsiglena unaocularus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Eridiphas Leviton & Tanner, 1960	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Squamata : Dipsadidae : *Eridiphas*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1860	Hypsiglena Cope
1875	Hypsiglena Cope p. 38
1979	Hypsiglena Behler and King
2005	Hypsiglena Uetz

References

Behler J. L., King F. W. (1979) , National Audubon Society Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians: North America, 1-743

Cope E. D. Check-list of North American Batrachia and Reptilia; with a systematic list of the higher groups, and an essay on geographical distribution. Based on the specimens contained in the U. S. National Museum, Bulletin of the United States National Museum 1, 1-109

Uetz P. (2005) Suborder Ophidia (Serpentes)- Snakes, The European Molecular Biology Laboratory Reptile Database

Flores-Villela, Oscar / McCoy, C. J., ed., 1993: Herpetofauna Mexicana: Lista anotada de las especies de anfibios y reptiles de México, cambios taxonómicos recientes, y nuevas especies. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication, no. 17. iv + 73. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1860 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Uetz, 1995-, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Uetz, 1995- - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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