The Distribution of the Northern Scarlet Snake, Cemophora coccinea copei (Jan, 1863), in Maryland and Delaware with a review of the known records

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作   者：

Herbert S. Harris, Jr.; 

作者机构：

Inc.;  Baltimore;  Natural History Society of Maryland;  P.O. Box 18750;  6908 Belair Road;  Maryland 21206.;  Department of Herpetology; 

关键词：

Snake;  Distribution;  Scarlet; 

期刊名称：

Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society

i s s n：

0025-4231

年卷期：

2013 年 49 卷 1/4 期

页   码：

40-46

页   码：

摘   要：

It has taken almost 151 years, for the distribution of the Northern Scarlet Snake, Cemophora coccinea copei (Jan, 1863) in Maryland, to be understood. The earliest record for C. c. copei in Maryland is based on a specimen the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (No. 750) at Harvard, collected in 1862, by Prof. A Wyatt in Baltimore (Fowler, 1945). Stejneger (1905) reported that early in 1891 a live specimen was sent to the museum from St. Margarets, Anne Arundel County, Maryland by A. A. Stinchcomb but unfortunately escaped. A drawing and a color description of the living specimen confirmed the identification. Cope (1900), mentions this specimen. Stejneger (loc. cit.) also reported a specimen from the vicinity of Anacostia, District of Columbia (USNM 35308) collected in 1893 by an employee of the St. Elizabeth Hospital. Fowler (loc. cit.) reports specimens from Salisbury (AMNH 77104), Wicomico County, Maryland (541 mm) collected by J. P. Brown, April 5, 1923 [(Littleford,1955)(Conant, 1958)] and from Brandy-wine, Prince George's County, Maryland on the basis of a photograph in the possession of C. S. East, and mentions the St. Margarets record as well as the Severn, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland and St. Denis, Baltimore Co., Maryland records reported by Kelly, Davis and Robertson (1936). He restricts Cemophora to the Coastal Plain.