Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
By 1823
Primary Source Reference:
Thomas Say's description in Edwin James, comp., Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the years 1819 and '20: By Order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War: Under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long. From the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Exploring Party, 2 vols. (Philadelphia, 1823), 1: 140 / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40216564
Notes:
Richard Harlan also described this species in "Genera of North American Reptilia, and a Synopsis of the Species," Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, vol. 5, part 2 (1827): 317-372 (described on pp. 347-348) / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24657405
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Common Name:
Western rat snake
Current Scientific Name
Pantherophis obsoletus
