Cemophora

Cemophora
Cemophora coccinea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Serpentes
Family:	Colubridae
Tribe:	Lampropeltini
Genus:	Cemophora Cope, 1860
Species
Two recognized species, see article.

Cemophora is a genus of harmless snakes, also known commonly as scarlet snakes, in the subfamily Colubrinae of the family Colubridae. The genus contains two species, which are endemic to the United States.

Species

• Cemophora coccinea (Blumenbach, 1788)
  • Cemophora coccinea coccinea (Blumenbach, 1788) – Florida scarlet snake
  • Cemophora coccinea copei Jan, 1863 – northern scarlet snake
• Cemophora lineri (K.L. Williams, B.C. Brown, & L.D. Wilson, 1966) – Texas scarlet snake

Further reading

• Boulenger GA (1894). Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume II., Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridæ Aglyphæ. London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xi + 382 pp. + Plates I–XX. (Genus Cemophora, p. 213).
• Cope ED (1860). "Catalogue of the Colubridæ in the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, with notes and descriptions of new species. Part 2". Proceedings of the Acadademy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 12: 241–266. (Cemophora, new genus, p. 244).
• Wright AH, Wright AA (1957). Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada. Ithaca and London: Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press. 1,105 pp. (in 2 volumes). (Genus Cemophora, pp. 111–113).