Elaphe sauromates

Familia: Colubridae
Subfamilia: Colubrinae
Genus: Elaphe
Species: Elaphe sauromates

Elaphe sauromates (Pallas, 1814)

• Type material: unknown.
• Type locality: “fossa isthmum Perecopensem secante et in planis Chersonesi tauricae et camporum ad Borysthenem”.

• Coluber sauromates Pallas, 1814: 42 [original combination]
• Tropidonotus sauromates — Eichwald, 1841: 111 [subsequent combination]
• Elaphis sauromates — Duméril, 1853 [subsequent combination]
• Elaphe sauromates — Cope, 1861 [subsequent combination]
• Coluber quatourlineatus sauromates — Boulenger, 1894 [subsequent combination]
• Coluber dione var. sauromates — Nikolski, 1906 [subsequent combination]
• Elaphe quatuorlineata sauromates — Bird, 1936 [subsequent combination]

• Pallas, P.S. 1814. Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, sistens omnium animalium in extenso Imperio Rossico et adjacentibus maribus observatorum recensionem, domicilia, mores et descriptiones, anatomen atque icones plurimorum. Volumen tertium. Animalia monocardia seu frigidi sanguinis imperii Rosso-Asiatici. Officina Caesareae Academiae Scientiarum: Petropoli. vii + 428 pp + cxxv pp. BnF Gallica Reference page. 

• Helfenberger, Notker 2001. Phylogenetic relationship of Old World Ratsnakes based on visceral organ topography, osteology, and allozyme variation. Russ. J. Herpetol. (Suppl.): 1–56.
• Lenk, P., Joger, U. & Wink, M. 2001. Phylogenetic relationships among European ratsnakes of the genus Elaphe Fitzinger based on mitochondrial DNA sequence comparisons. Amphibia-Reptilia 22(3): 329–339. DOI: 10.1163/156853801317050124 Reference page. 
• Utiger, U., Helfenberger, N., Schätti, B., Schmidt, C., Ruf, M. & Ziswiler, V. 2002. Molecular Systematics and Phylogeny of Old and New World Ratsnakes, Elaphe Auct., and Related Genera (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 9(2): 105–124. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2002-9-2-105-124 [nonfunctional] Reference page. 

• Uetz, P. & Hallermann, J. 2024. Elaphe sauromates. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 24 May 2023.
• Aghasyan, A., Avci, A., Tuniyev, B., Lymberakis, P., Andrén, C., Cogalniceanu, D., Wilkinson, J., Ananjeva, N.B., Üzüm, N., Orlov, N.L., Podloucky, R., Tuniyev, S., Kaya, U., Böhme, W., Sindaco, R., Borkin, L., Milto, K., Golynsky, E., Rustamov, A, Nuridjanov, D., Munkhbayar, K. & Shestapol, A. 2017. IUCN: Elaphe sauromates  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T157265A746010. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T157265A746010.en. Accessed on 24 May 2023.