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Citation: Midtgaard, Rune. RepFocus - A Survey of the Reptiles of the World. (www.repfocus.dk).
Latest update: December 31st, 2022.


Taxonomy of the family Colubridae
Bibliography of the genus Farancia
Biodiversity of the family Colubridae








Genus
Farancia

American Mud and Rainbow Snakes

Schlammnattern

Nordamerikanske Muddersnoge

1842 Farancia Gray (type species: Farancia drummondii Gray 1842)
1849 Abastor Gray (type species: Coluber erytrogrammus Palisot de Beauvois in Sonnini & Latreille 1802; syn. Williams & Wallach 1989)
Contents: 2 species, both of which are endemic.
Endemism: 0% 100%
Distribution: USA (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia).

Farancia abacura

American Mud Snake

Gewöhnliche Schlammnatter

Nordamerikansk Muddersnog

1803 Coluber ovivorus Daudin [not Coluber ovivorus Linnaeus 1758]
1836 Coluber abacurus Holbrook
Helicops abacurus Holbrook 1842
Farancia abacura Baird & Girard 1853
Hydrops abacura Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1854
Calopisma abacurum Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1854
1837 Homalopsis reinwardtii Schlegel
Hydrops reinwardtii Gray 1842
Farancia abacura reinwardtii Smith 1938
Calopisma reinwardtii Jan 1865
1842 Farancia drummondii Gray (Karges & McDaniel 1982)
1849 Farancia fasciata Gray (Schmidt 1953)

Other common names:
abacura: Eastern Mud Snake
reinwardti: Western Mud Snake
Distribution: Extinct in: USA (Indiana).
Distribution: USA (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia).


Farancia abacura
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Farancia erytrogramma

Rainbow Snake

Regenbogen-Schlammnatter

Amerikansk Regnbuesnog

1802 Coluber erytrogrammus Palisot de Beauvois in Sonnini & Latreille
Natrix erytrogrammus Merrem 1820
Homalopsis erytrogrammus Boie 1827
Helicops erytrogrammus Wagler 1830
Calopisma erytrogramma Duméril, Bibron & Duméril 1854
Abastor erytrogrammus Gray 1849
Farancia erytrogramma Neill 1964
1842 Duberria ancoralis Berthold (Böhme 2010)
1854 Homalopsis parviceps Blyth (Bauer & Das 1999)
1964 Farancia erytrogramma seminola Neill
Farancia seminola Collins 1991

Other common names:
seminola: South Florida Rainbow Snake
Remarks: Collins (1991) suggested recognition of seminola as a separate species.
Distribution: USA (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia).